Word: preach
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America’s attitude towards drinking and teaching children to drink—one that leads teachers and parents to preach abstinence and children to pay their local winos to buy them bottles of booze at the liquor store—is completely backwards. Parents are conditioned to fear alcohol among their children, and children are conditioned to rebel by drinking behind closed doors because our laws forbid them from doing otherwise...
...dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game--are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish-language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game-are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish- language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...that, perversely, is a key part of Whole Foods' appeal. "It's about whole foods, not holy foods," says A.C. Gallo, vice president for East Coast operations. "We try to educate people, but we're not going to preach that the only thing you can eat to be healthy is brown rice and vegetables." Research indicates that Whole Foods' hard-core shoppers think of themselves as gourmets more than all-natural eaters, yet they are enticed by the healthy atmosphere. As a result, the firm started downplaying the healthy, ramping up the fresh and taking to heart what its regional...
...still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living...