Word: grahams
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...cool detachment of another species. The singing, although always vibrant, is uneven. In the peripatetic cast Andy Spangler glows as the Elvis-like Rum Tum Tugger and Leslie Ellis is haunting as Grizabella, the faded glamour cat, but in the Washington troupe the performers in those roles, Douglas Graham and Janene Lovullo, do not measure...
...session was an all-American jamboree that pointedly excluded foreign participants. Explained William Graham, the President's science adviser: "It is not so much a fear as a certain realization. The Japanese will move very aggressively in this area." Reagan outlined an eleven-point plan that ranged from the promise of $150 million in Defense Department funds over the next three years to the relaxation of antitrust laws so that firms may collaborate on projects. Recalling remarks by Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Secretary John Herrington declared, "Superconductivity has become the test case of whether...
Nothing, including the PTL scandal, seems about to change televangelism's practice of financially secretive one-man rule. None of the current crop of big-time TV preachers seem eager to follow the example of the most famous of modern evangelists, Billy Graham, who still gets the highest TV ratings of any preacher for his occasional prime-time crusades. Decades ago Graham pioneered a cleanliness campaign among evangelists by taking a straight salary (currently $59,100, plus housing allowance and expenses) rather than living off unaudited gifts. Graham led the way in giving control of his ministry to an independent...
Like most of the other major televangelists, Falwell is not a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a Washington-based group with 376 members. The council was set up in 1979 to enforce a not terribly rigid ethics code for independent Protestant fund raisers; Billy Graham is a member. The group insists that the boards of its ministries cannot have a majority of family members or insiders and that they must release audited financial statements.Falwell left the organization in 1983.He can at least claim to be responsible to a nine-member board of outside businessmen who serve without...
...Billy Graham Evangelistic Association...