Word: keston
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England's Keston College, a research center on Christianity under Communism, reports that 30,000 of the estimated 150,000 Soviet Pentecostalists are seeking to emulate 255,000 Soviet Jews and emigrate. Supporters of the seven claim the State Deparment has been lax in pressing the Soviets, which State denies. U.S. diplomats have tried to talk them into leaving the embassy as the only way to get an exit visa. Meanwhile, the State Deparment objects to a bill by Michingan Senator Carl Levin, co sponsored by 64 other Senators, to improve the seven's circumstances by giving them...
...hardest. Merrill Butler, president of the NAHB, estimated that nationwide unemployment in the industry could jump to 15% by October. St. Louis builders are predicting that local industry unemployment will rise to 80%; in some areas, like Chicago, more than 50% of all firms could go bankrupt. Says Michael Keston, president of a California-based construction company: "Builders have crawled into their shells like turtles...