Word: foreing
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Other critics have different objections. William Fore, head of the communications commission of the National Council of Churches, has supported many boycotts and is a longtime opponent of televised sex and violence. He questions the use of boycotts when there are other remedies available-for example, share holder proposals at annual meetings to ban company advertisements on excessively violent shows. One such N.C.C. petition succeeded, Fore said, in persuading General Mills executives to adopt the policy voluntarily. Peggy Charren of Newtonville, Mass., a Boston suburb, is head of Action for Children's Television, which has successfully lobbied for better...
...heard a loud cry from several voices at once, that the whale was coming foul of the ship. Scarcely had the sound of their voices reached my ears when it was followed by a tremendous crash, the whale had struck the ship with his head under the larboard fore chains at the water's edge with such force as to shock every man upon his feet. The whale then getting under the ship's bottom came up under the starboard quarters. This gave the mate a fine opportunity to have killed him with a throw of his lance...
...Zionists send their youths to experimental farms known as kibbutzim to train them for settling the Promised Land. Hassidim responded to the Jewish interwar political explosion by renewing orthodoxy. The Jewish Socialist Bund--"We're the young brigade of the proletariat," the children chant--stands at the fore of the trade union movement. There are labor Zionists on the left and revisionist Zionists on the right. Opposed to the Zionists are those who uphold the values of the Diaspora--the Jewish dispersion--and promote the cause of civil and political minority rights, supposedly enshrined by the Treaty of Versailles. Unified...
...Capital Punishment. Not via the chair, the chamber or the firing squad - but in the board game. In Capital Punishment, say Co-Inventors Bob Johnson and Ronald Pramschufer of Baltimore, the object is to put a murderer, a kidnaper, an arsonist or a rapist into the electric chair be fore an opponent's "liberals" can set him free by landing on the same square as the criminal. Not surprisingly, the game has outraged more than a few opponents of capital punishment. "Treating the entire subject of killing as entertainment is a sickness that could very well destroy our civilization...
...President called in representatives from the Roundtable and the other organizations for conversation, coffee and jelly beans. Says James ("Mike") McKevitt, a director of the NFIB: "To the President's credit, we were at the table along with Big Business. I've never seen that be fore in my ten years in Washington...