Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic flaws in ABC's tax-saving system, the state's fiduciary experts explained, were that: 1) the founder of the trust never really relinquished his control or interest in it; and 2) he never redly intended it to be set up exclusively for charitable purposes. Though ABC knew that this was contrary to federal statutes governing tax-free foundations, the state charged, the outfit tried to conceal the fact by enjoining its clients to absolute secrecy. "The cleverness of the scheme," said California Deputy Attorney General H. Warren Siegel, "was to get you to join by saying...
...with the colonial past and to find its place within the emerging nations (see box, page 65). The Church is growing so fast that realistic estimates of its adherents range from 30 million to 40 million-by far the largest Christian body in Africa. As Rome has turned over control of missionaries to some 320 local dioceses and 28 episcopal conferences, the church in Africa has become more autonomous. But it must still depend heavily on outside financial support...
...arrived in Kampala, he heartily endorsed their moves, both toward autonomy and a more vigorous effort to Africanize the church. In Rugaba Cathedral, Tanzania's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa pledged the symposium's "total solidarity" with Rome (last year, the bishops had praised the Pope's birth control encyclical). Then Paul cut the umbilical cord of four centuries. "You are missionaries to yourselves now," said the Pope. "The Church of Christ is well and truly planted." Expressions of faith, he agreed, should be "suited to the tongue, the style, the character and the genius...
...were the most dehumanizing practices proscribed-ritual murder, human sacrifice, slavery-but also many other institutions that were an intricate part of the fabric of communal life. Polygamy was almost universally forbidden. The ancestor cult, a belief that the dead remained a part of the village and should help control its life, was discredited. Ritual dances and chants, ritual drinking, even the traditional and critical rites of passage-ceremonies marking birth, death, puberty, marriage-were treated as lapses into heathenism. Though the tribesman believed deeply in the evil that could be wrought by black magic, and felt he needed charms...
...indicator. Because the market mirrors investors' expectations of the performance of U.S. business, it is a valuable (but sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future. A stock-market decline is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the Government is finally beginning to bring the overexuberant U.S. economy under control. "Inflation is being wrung out of the stock market," says Walter E. Hoadley, executive vice president of California's Bank of America. "The correction is a prerequisite to a resumption of healthy growth...