Word: creed
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...poor will fare best, Gilder says, in a vibrant economy in which low tax rates spur investment and speed the creation of new jobs. He unabashedly touts a Robin Hood-in-reverse creed: "To help the poor and middle classes, one must cut the tax rates of the rich." Gilder argues that only the rich have enough capital to stimulate rapid economic growth, and only reasonable tax rates can induce them to invest rather than spend their money in unproductive ways...
...notable Christologist, Schillebeeckx is a leader in the doctrinal reinterpretation of Christ, in part because he wants to make the Saviour more accessible to modern man. But in doing so, he avoids the words of the Nicene Creed about Jesus being "eternally begotten of the Father . . . true God from true God . . . one in Being with the Father...
This year is the 450th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, an early and central creed of Lutheranism. Lutherans presented it as a statement of their doctrinal agreements and disagreements with Rome at an unsuccessful conference called by the Emperor Charles V, in the hope of reuniting Western Christendom...
...hundred students settled into their seats in a darkened Science Center B Friday night, expecting to enjoy the Itallian Stallion's fight against Apollo Creed in the Great American boxing match--"Rocky." It was "Rocky," all right, but he was speaking Japanese...
...bring poetry to life, Dali carried an elaborate, eagle-headed sword and distributed tuberoses to reporters. His costume was no less vivid: a leopardskin coat and red barrenita cap. Answering questions in French, Spanish and Catalan, the painter declared, "I am monarchist, Catholic and Roman," but without a political creed "because nobody knows whether the Venus de Milo was a fascist or a Communist." When pressed about a Catalan government investigation into his affairs, he insisted, "I like to pay taxes." Dali then reiterated a previously announced intention to begin a still vague 22-mile-long project in Rumania...