Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many people believe that all religions point in some way to God or at least to the idea of God. Why should people in a pluralistic world today prefer Christianity to other faiths...
...peer pressure, or teens' sense of invulnerability," he says. But there are other important factors. A teenage girl may be too embarrassed to ask her partner to wear a condom. Or a youth might not want to buy condoms because it makes him feel guilty for having sex. Many prefer not to question their partners' sex practices, as a sign of trust. And finally, Keeling says, the mixed messages that teenagers receive can be deeply confusing. "Kids do what they see, not what they know. We tell kids not to have sex and then we use sex to sell everything...
...many voices and competing interests on our side to deliver a clear, coherent, timely message," says Paula Stern, a former head of the U.S. International $ Trade Commission. A fire-breathing anticommunist on Capitol Hill may want to starve America's enemies into submission, but a farm-state legislator would prefer to sell them his constituents' grain...
...Turin: "There is an invasion of imported mountain bikes!" French manufacturers sold more than 1 million velo tout terrain bikes last year, up from 1,000 in 1984. Such Japanese firms as Bridgestone and Fuji are ATB top sellers in the U.S. But back home, many Japanese consumers prefer American bikes from Diamond Back, Specialized, GT, Schwinn, Trek and Cannondale. They are also snapping up stylish U.S.-made cycling clothes from Nike, Hind and other firms...
...medical activism? Probably not. It is possible that the coalition whipped up to defeat the gag rule could strengthen efforts to revise the Medicare schedule or liberalize fetal-tissue research, but neither of those issues generates the same kind of deep emotions. Most doctors would prefer to leave politics to the politicians, if they would just leave medical decisions to physicians and their patients...