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...surveys," said researcher Dr. Byron Johnson, professor of sociology and co-director of the ISR, when the results were released last month. ISR researchers also organized their data according to brand-new categories, dividing American religion into four ways that we can view God - Authoritarian, Benevolent, Critical and Distant...
...first chemical plant. But after independence in 1947, the group came to symbolize all that was bad about Indian business. It lost its airline and insurance arm to nationalization. To avoid giving up more to the Congress Party socialists who ruled India for a half-century, J.R.D. Tata, a distant cousin of Ratan Tata, emphasized individual companies over the group, keeping the conglomerate's stakes small and demanding little coordination. Meanwhile, shielded from competition by the restrictive bureaucracy of the "license Raj," Tata's companies became bloated and calcified. "We weren't driving ourselves hard enough in a protected environment...
...Spirit too does not lend itself to summary. To say that America is a very religious country is both true and unhelpful without a concordance. Researchers at Baylor University identified the different Gods we envision and the worldviews they invite. Whether you see an attentive Father or a distant one, a critical deity or a forgiving one, goes a long way toward explaining your views on military spending, the Iraq war, environmental responsibility and wealth redistribution...
...authors noted that despite national hubbub over Medicare’s prescription drug benefits, it ranked a distant third with only 15 percent citing it among their top two concerns...
Neither cold weather nor heavy rain could stop thousands upon thousands of people grimly walking to the funeral hall of the Troyekurovskoye cemetery on a distant edge of Moscow, to pay their last respects to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated last Saturday...