Word: preaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passable story out of what seems to be headed straight for crash-and-burn. Ultimately it's a book about love--a unique book in that the love with which it deals is fairly singular. The book doesn't seem to be trying to expose some broad message or preach anything to us. It is simply telling another story of love, loss and happiness...
...statement is true, it is not a theorem in their textbooks and will never, ever show up--because it says it won't! If it did show up in their textbooks, then what it says about itself would be wrong, and who--even on Mars--wants math textbooks that preach falsehoods as if they were true...
There is nothing more disturbing than reading an article devoted to the trio of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers [BUSINESS, Feb. 15]. These men hypocritically preach the merits of free markets and the evils of crony capitalism, yet have done more to subvert the free market than any other American economic navigators to date. They are anything but saviors of the world. By undermining the free markets on behalf of Wall Street special interests, they have destroyed the once level playing field and removed the essential element of risk necessary...
...crucial line separating church and state was blurred last week in Missouri when Pope John Paul II came to St. Louis to preach against the death penalty and Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan listened too carefully, commuting the death sentence of triple murderer Darrell J. Mease...
...hours later, as Wilkinson debarks in Marietta, Ohio, Spanky Duley and some other deckhands request a sermon the next time the chaplain comes on. He mulls Mark 4: 35, in which Jesus and the disciples, crossing the Sea of Galilee to preach on the far shore, encounter a storm that threatens their boat. "The guys on the towboats may not think they are in a spectacularly good environment in which to be religious," Wilkinson says. "But in the end, I think they can minister to one another. You know, the disciples ultimately got safely to the other side of that...