Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minimum wage of $3.35 an hour, earned by nearly 3.5 million American workers, has stayed the same for the past six years. A messenger, clerk or fast-food worker who works full time at that rate makes $6,968 a year, which is 23% below the poverty level for a family of three...
...would "call Oral Roberts home" unless by March 31 believers came up with $4.5 million for missionary work. Many Christians, including some Roberts followers, were scandalized by what they perceived to be implicit spiritual blackmail. The Bakker-Roberts furor raised questions about the future of TV evangelism, a fast-growing, klieg-lighted mode of Christian proselytizing -- and fund raising. Counting radio, the gospel broadcasters' total receipts probably approach $2 billion a year. To critics as well as concerned believers, the industry often seems more concerned with bucks than Bibles, and with the personality cults more than the spirit of Christ...
Collins remarked to reporters that Roberts "doesn't have to commit hara- kiri now" but allowed that he could probably make do with some "psychiatric treatment." Even though the gift met the divinely ordained total that Roberts had announced, he continued his fast in the Prayer Tower and asked his flock for more cash. Roberts' performance caused Swaggart to lament, "The gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level...
...formal smiles are fading fast. Until now the trade relationship between the U.S. and Japan has been handled with relative congeniality, especially considering the rising tensions on each side. Practically every potential crisis has been forestalled with cool-headed talks and bilateral agreements. But what seemed at worst a spirited competition between two trade giants last week escalated into a confrontation that could, if not handled carefully, develop into an old-fashioned trade war. In an extraordinary change of tone on the controversial issue of trade with Japan, the Reagan Administration announced plans to impose drastic 100% duties on several...
...successes as an advertising executive and promoter who had already parlayed one personal experience (owning an auto dealership) into a book called Don't Get Taken Every Time, which is now in its 17th printing. He's also no novice on the celebrity circuits, both the Hollywood and social fast tracks. Still, when he got the idea of renovating Remar, book publishers didn't nibble, though his old buddy George Plimpton was encouraging. "He suggested I could be in a little worse shape, and began pouring taller drinks and urging me to eat more fatty meals and to stay...