Word: fundamentalistism
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...Right. Buoyed by the business dollars flowing into the New Right's free-market, less-government platform, the anti-abortion movement began to rack up political victories. Right to Life political action committees began to target key Congressional races--the same contests singled out by Republican, business and fundamentalist groups for support. Coordinated or not, the combined forces of these endorsements did contribute to some upsets...
Electoral victories notwithstanding, anti-abortionists began to suspect this political alliance was not advantageous. When they joined the fundamentalist and business-oriented groups, right to lifers found they'd also bought into a sharply conservative ideology that was in some ways antithetical to their own religious principles. Still more troubling was the realization that the New Right was milking the anti-abortion movement even as they themselves were grasping onto the coattails of the conservatives. And the New Right was not giving them much in return. Paige contends that the 1980 election only proved "that the New Right was using...
Just as the whole venture seemed on the verg of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one-week symbolic last (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
Just as the whole venture seemed on the verg of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...Nova in Puerto Rico, the company discovered that the car's name can be read no va, which translates as "does not go." Chevrolet also found out that many American Indians refused to buy the Apache pickup truck because that tribe had been their traditional enemy. And fundamentalist Christians condemned the Dodge Demon. A few of the pitfalls are obvious. Royalty, for example, sometimes can be a profitable quality to evoke (Monarch, Grand Marquis, Crown Victoria), but there will probably never be an automobile called the Chevy Shah...