Word: mormon
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Much of the multilingual talent is a dividend from the missionary work performed by the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For decades the church has sent thousands of young men (and a few women) each year on missions to win converts around the world. They spend at least two years in an assigned region, preaching the Mormon message and living side by side with locals. With more than 8 million members worldwide, the church has 44,500 missionaries serving in 95 countries and 26 territories...
...nearly constant presence at her brother's side represents something of a homecoming for Bay. In 1982 she abandoned Roman Catholicism and married into the Mormon faith. On her father's orders, many family members -- including Pat -- did not attend the ceremony, and the marriage ended in divorce. Today the Pat-Bay relationship is close again, strengthened by their common mission: restoring the party to what they consider to be Reaganite conservatism...
...more subtle, a product of centuries of legal evolution. It gets to the very heart of America's identity, for it is about a clashing of rights and responsibilities: Should Christian Scientist parents be allowed, on religious grounds, to reject medical treatment for a dying child? Should Mormon parents be allowed to claim a tax deduction for the money they spend sending their children out as missionaries? Like so many other issues -- abortion, the right to die, the right to bear arms -- the issue of religion's place in American life is at once deeply personal and yet highly public...
Bucking its Mormon, conservative traditions last week, Salt Lake City made Deedee Corradini, a Lebanese-born Presbyterian, its first woman mayor. Corradini, who had never held office before, scored a 55% to 45% victory over Republican Dave Buhler, director of Utah's Department of Commerce. Gender was never an issue in the campaign, where crime and pocketbook concerns prevailed. And Corradini worked so hard to keep the race nonpartisan that when state Republicans held their convention a few months ago, she set up a booth among them to attract support. The mayor-elect's female supporters couldn't help crowing...
...Mormons' proselytizing tradition has made Utah attractive to companies in the U.S. and abroad. Each year the church sends out thousands of young men (and some women) to live abroad and preach the Mormon word -- in the local language. As a result, Utah has a disproportionately high number of people who are fluent in foreign languages, a prime selling point in the global marketplace. Compeq, a Taiwan-based computer-board maker, decided to open its first overseas plant in Utah in part because its managers knew Utah has hundreds of Mormon missionaries familiar with their country's culture and language...