Word: dogmas
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...adulthood." Example: "Creation stories . . . suggest that a divine being created the earth and its people. Scientists claim, however, that people evolved from lower forms." Among the responses to this, one 18-year-old freshman brushed off anthropologists' arguments for evolution and came down on the side of the biblical dogma. But a graduate student in social science called both views "sets of ideas that have evolved from different positions . . . and so it's very hard to argue against one or the other and to present supporting statements." Similar analyses were offered by others, independent of religious background...
...margin, highly competitive world of department-store sales, Seattle-based Nordstrom has turned exacting standards of customer service into a billion-dollar annual business. The rapidly expanding chain, which has 45 stores in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana and Utah, has drilled its staff incessantly with the venerable dogma that the customer is always right. Result: the chain's sales, 73% derived from women's retailing, passed the $1 billion mark for the first time in 1985 and reached an estimated $1.6 billion for 1986. Sales per square foot of space, a basic retail performance yardstick, is about double...
...revelations. Our own country is filling up with people of political ambitions who claim to have God's ear. Some spread the gospel of Fundamentalism. Others preach intolerance and hate to giddy television audiences. The preachers smile quite well. These extremists have power, which derives less from dogma than from a deep public need to retrieve the values and comforts of belief. The preachers will be rejected eventually, but the need will survive. It is that need that lies below the speed of the times, swimming in the opposite direction of science and technology...
...cultural gulf between Rome and the U.S. exacerbates the conflict. While the American bishops' starting point tends to be democracy within the church, Rome is concerned first and foremost with religious dogma. According to one Vatican official, U.S. Catholics are heavily influenced by their culture and media, which, to the Pope, create a "society of immediate gratification," the exact opposite of John Paul's ethic of "service and commitment." A final irritant is American Catholics' penchant for airing disputes in public...
...Deng regime is based on incentives and social advances, but is unaffected by dogma," he said...