Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberals who have dominated mainstream Protestant churches almost steadily since the 1920s. The central issues vary from church to church, but they center on three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere is the clash currently more bitter than in the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, whose biennial convention in Milwaukee last week boiled over into a savage debate over...
Growing Concentration. Washington's trustbusters have filed few major cases lately, but Richard McLaren, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, insists that there has been no slackening of zeal. The Administration's prime concern is controlling "merger mania," he explains, and recently there just have not been any big mergers to attack. Attorney General John Mitchell discouraged many corporate giants from contemplating merger by emphasizing in a 1969 speech that the Government would move to bar most acquisitions by the nation's 200 largest companies...
...company's polka-dotted pleasure palaces offer 31 constantly changing tastes. Right now, for example, ice cream cravers can commit caloric immolation with Blueberries 'n Cream, Pink Bubble Gum and Boysenberry Cheesecake. There is a newly consummated marriage of Bananas 'n Strawberries, a tangerine-vanilla merger called Tanganilla, plus the usual array of popular holdovers from months past: Caramel Rocky Road, German Chocolate Cake and Pistachio Almond Fudge, among others...
Bunting has favored merger also for the financial benefit it will bring badly impoverished Radcliffe...
After that, things got better. People became interested in merger and politics became less tense. "This year, it seems that people are less active politically," she said recently...