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...March TV Guide poll 61% of the respondents wanted more references to God in prime time. The networks, recognizing a growth opportunity, had already begun easing clergy into the province of lawyers, doctors and cops. According to a Parents Television Council study, there has been a near fourfold increase in religious depictions on network prime time since...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE England led the Industrial Revolution and fed it with natural resources from its colonies. The pace of technological innovation was extraordinary and included the steam engine and the Bessemer steel converter. England produced more steel, locomotives and textiles than anyone else. Its economy grew fourfold from 1851 to 1911. Since the British pound was tied to gold, it was a global currency and helped make England the center of international banking...
BOSTON: A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that talking on the phone while driving is nearly as dangerous as driving drunk. The study, which was conducted in Canada, found that using a cellular phone increases the risk of an accident fourfold, the same as driving while intoxicated. And it doesn't matter what kind of phone it is. The results were the same with a hands-free model as with standard hand-held telephones. The study did note that the phones provide some safety benefits. Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed used their phones to call...
...senior management had spent Wednesday celebrating in London. They had just announced a booming quarterly earnings report, increasing revenues more than 12% to almost $1 billion, including a nearly fourfold jump in earnings to over $25 million. It was a miraculous return from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in just a year's time. After a private victory dinner with champagne, ceo Jeffrey Erickson and corporate communications V.P. Mark Abels left the party to go to bed at the Savoy Hotel; they were scheduled to fly home the next day to TWA headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Then the phone call came...
...from now. Schoenherr blames the shortage on mandatory celibacy, a long-standing discipline within church law that John Paul has refused to reconsider. After surveying male Catholic students in 1985, Dean Hoge, a sociology professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, concluded that there would be a fourfold increase in seminary applications if celibacy were no longer required...