Word: growth
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Moreover, education officials say, the issue of information restriction could be a major one in the up coming fall presidential campaign, since it has tremendous ramifications on economic growth, foreign policy, and the way the government formulates policy. They point out that the issues of government secrecy and information restriction played a prominent role in the Democratic candidates' debates throughout last winter and will likely become important topics in the fall campaign...
...principle topics of the upcoming campaign are going to be economic growth and competitiveness and the challenges of foreign policy and national security," Shattuck says. "The issue of government information controls is central to both of those topics...
While the rest of the country frets over the inflationary perils of free- floating prices, Guangdong's 63 million people are barely concerned. After all, their economy grew 18% in 1987. This year the growth rate is a more sedate but still impressive 11%. Guangdong's producers and consumers have learned that when prices are allowed to respond to supply and demand, they may initially shoot up but begin to decline as new production reaches the marketplace...
...Holy Rollers," Assemblies worshipers are now on a holy roll. Combining lively worship, warm fellowship and soul-winning zeal, the group posted an astounding 23.6% increase in church attendance between 1979 and 1985, a period when those crustier Protestants were struggling to stem decline. John Vaughn, who tracks church growth from Missouri's Southwest Baptist University, reports that two-fifths of America's most rapidly growing congregations are in the Assemblies. The mammoth First Assembly in Phoenix, for instance, boasts the nation's biggest Sunday school (8,000 students) and Holy Week pageants that have attracted tens of thousands...
Long before the scandal, Swaggart was a source of dissension. Despite his high-tech ministry and opulent life-style, Swaggart was ever on the hunt for heresy and "worldliness," championing the simpler Pentecostalism of old. He targeted dozens of the newer congregations that are experiencing the greatest U.S. growth. Many participate in the interdenominational charismatic movement, which often tolerates modern feel-good theologies and rejects old taboos (drinking, smoking, dancing). Remarks Tommy Reid, pastor of a 5,000-member church near Buffalo: "I certainly don't want to be from the backwoods, where there are rules and regulations a mile...