Word: offenders
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...conservative Christian, that kind of reading is mild compared with the pronouncements from the left fringes of contemporary scholarship. The efforts of moderate theologians to find new meanings in Scripture are burdened by the decrees of such groups as the Jesus Seminar, which seem determined to offend at all costs. The seminar is the invention of onetime Protestant clergyman Robert W. Funk, who now runs a Bible think tank, the Westar Institute. Since the mainstream press rarely covers the esoterica of New Testament criticism, he set an irresistible trap: he would gather "eminent" scholars, and they would put the events...
Facing harsh odds for re-election, Clinton cannot afford to offend Florida voters by opposing the measure. Indeed, the Administration showed its toughness last week when the State Department forbade Cuba's U.N. ambassador to attend a national prayer breakfast in Washington. But these diplomats know that Helms' bill will buy the U.S. considerable trouble with good friends that are among Cuba's leading foreign investors...
...Moscow) of the California left. But in San Francisco, KSFO has just dumped all its moderate and liberal talk-show hosts -- including Leykis -- to go to a conservative format featuring Hamblin, Reagan, Emerson and Pat Buchanan. What's the problem with liberals? "They are genetically engineered to not offend anybody," says Tom Tradup, general manager of talk station WLS in Chicago. "People who go on the air afraid of offending are not inherently entertaining...
...trailblazer in entertaining, eager-to-offend conservatism was William F. Buckley Jr. in the early '60s. His cutting wit had the patina of moral certitude, in a fight his liberal opponents were often too genteel to win. Buckley's heirs (William Safire, Buchanan, P.J. O'Rourke) helped lift from Republicans the stigma of the pruney banker. On the radio side, conservative talk also had '50s and '60s pioneers: cantankerous Joe Pine and Bob Grant. Grant and Limbaugh, who have broadcast back to back on New York City's WABC since 1988, have set the limits -- one growly, the other comic...
...guys in the shops regularly are not consulted." Other experts say the problem lies not in the plane hangars but in the offices of the FAA. An aviation authority says the agency should have grounded the foreign-made ATRs long ago, but "the U.S. government didn't want to offend foreign countries like France...