Word: outreach
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...does not have to come from California's San Fernando Valley, though indeed the subspecies Puella americana vallensis (PAV) was first identified in that beige outreach of Los Angeles. She can equally well be from some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions of the California Girl...
...translation is booming; church broadcasts reach 990 million people a month. Some 6,850 of the 8,990 ethnic or linguistic groups on earth have by now been penetrated to some extent with the gospel. Thus though the Christian proportion of the world population is declining a bit, "the outreach, impact and influence of Christianity have risen spectacularly," he maintains. If the church has not achieved its much touted turn-of-the-century goal of "the evangelization of the world in this generation," Barrett says, it has come closer than most Christians and non-Christians realize...
...sudden students seemed interested, so the Board underwent "outreach." It formed a student panel with a fanciful name--the Advisory Panel on Student Concerns--by asking friendly high school guidance counselors to spread the word and find some eligible, intelligent teenagers. The Board placed a couple more on their membership councils which convene periodically on subjects like Entrance Service or Minority Affairs. Somewhere along the line, they also hired me for the summer...
...income Boston residents struggling to prepare their tax returns are now receiving additional aid thanks to a new community outreach program launched last week by six Harvard Business School students...
...reverence, a purified measure of the poison he delivered. Differences in interpretation are not a matter of nuance, unless differing over a factor of a million is quibbling. That the planners for Suslov's funeral, a host of apparatchnik pressmen, and perhaps an entire popuation, could stifle the outreach of history with such an air of unconcern says something about human nature, and our ability to adapt to the needs of whatever sort of politics happen to entrap...