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Whan's ultimate goal is to phone every household in North America each year with a personal invitation to attend church services. That would require 2 million callers to contact 100 homes apiece -- a total of 200 million heavenly junk calls. No problem, says Whan. "It literally could be done in three hours." Even St. Paul might be impressed. If the telephone had existed in his day, he could have evangelized from his living room instead of wandering over land and sea for two decades. Just imagine the sales pitch: "How are you this evening? Good. My name is Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Many Are Called | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Just before dawn on Sunday, police raided the Mandela household. They dusted for fingerprints, carried away boxes of clothing, whips and clubs for forensic tests and detained 14 members for questioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Decline and Fall of a Heroine | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...going to tell the wage earners in Chicago that they should pay a higher tax rate than stockbrokers," thunders House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. There is evidence to support this equity argument: currently, 70% of all capital gains are claimed by taxpayers with household incomes over $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reaganomics With A Human Face | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...average Massachusetts household uses approximately 60 gallons of water each day, according to MWRA Executive Director Paul Levy. A 10 percent reduction in water use would be easily accomplished through simple measures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Officials Announce Water Emergency | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

Levy stressed the need to attend to household problems that cause water waste, such as fixing leaky faucets and pipes, limiting toilet use and cutting back on garden watering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Officials Announce Water Emergency | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

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