Word: preach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trumpeted "Harvard athletic philosophy" is about as easy to define as it is for an alchemist to turn base metals into gold. But if you keep your eyes wide open, hints of it are evident in people like Dave Fish--someone who doesn't just preach the "Harvard philosophy" to his athletes, but is a walking, talking, and most importantly thinking example...
...also alarms me that you have not published an editorial on the subject. If you believe any of the principles you usually preach, you must recognize that the attack on Dr. Ngo is an attack on us all. I hope that you understand me literally. If Dr. Ngo cannot return to Harvard to express his views on Vietnam without fearing for his life, then the faculty, guests, employees, and students who write and speak here on such subjects as Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, and ElSalvador have to expect that they too may soon run deathly risks...
...folks at WLS-TV, the ABC-owned station in Chicago, when they hired defeated independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson, 59, as a political commentator. Recalling one criticism of his stump performance, the former Illinois Congressman once again pledged an Anderson difference: "I firmly promise that I won't preach." But no sooner did the cameras start to roll than Reverend John was back sermonizing, this time on the follies of the Reagan economic program. That aside, the performance was as smooth as the whir of a blow dryer. The only tough moment came during a commercial break following...
...special concern of the IRS is that too many tax "advisers" are getting rich through books and courses that act to encourage tax protests. Often, people who promote illegal tax-avoidance tactics do not personally practice what they preach. Says Scott Waffle, an IRS spokesman: "We know of several people who make a business out of it, but when we look at their returns, we find they are completely straight." The pros know that the federal tax code makes it a crime for anyone to provide false or fraudulent information on an IRS return or to willfully withhold pertinent information...
Into this arrived John Paul II, carrying his own message of muscular but peaceful Christianity. He went to preach human rights to the Marcoses and moral obligations to the Philippine people, to speak of a revolution of the spirit rather than of the gun, to depoliticize the church and dissociate it from the political left and political right...