Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian Church-Disciples of Christ (1,302,000 members). Last October's General Assembly adopted "for study" a report stating that homosexuals' "gifts of ministry are to be welcomed" (referring to the "ministry" of all church members). The assembly rejected an explicit condemnation of homosexual life-style for Christians and set up a study on ordination, which will be dealt with at next year's assembly...
...adoption is illegal in most states, but Keane thinks surrogate motherhood-using the husband's sperm-is a special case. This month he and an associate, Attorney Robert Harrison, took the issue to court; they asked a Wayne County circuit court judge to enjoin the state attorney general from interfering in the payment of fees to surrogate mothers. Says Harrison: "The question is, does the state have sufficient interest in this entire scheme which overrides the right of privacy and the right to bear and beget children. We don't think...
...pitiably broken men. But it is Undershaft who nonchalantly breaks Barbara's heart, and opens her eyes. He signs a check for ?5,000, matching a sum from a notorious distiller named Bodger, so that the Salvation Army shelters may stay open. When the Army's general accepts the money, Barbara breaks down, sobbing, "Drunkenness and murder! My God: why hast thou forsaken...
...quest for a cleaner, safer environment has forced companies to adhere to thousands of dizzying-and expensive-Government regulations. General Motors has figured out exactly just how high the cost is running for itself...
Executive Pay. Responding to Carter's call, several companies volunteered to hold pay raises of high executives to 5% or less this year. General Motors and Time Inc. joined the list. So did A T & T, after its chairman, John deButts, got a wheedling phone call from Bob Strauss, who typically asks business leaders, "What can you put in the pot?" Ford, R.C.A., Westinghouse and some other companies were studying the idea. Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee voted to deny scheduled pay increases this year to some 16,000 federal executives earning more than...