Word: purely
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...antiabortion ads were a major (if tasteful) foray into hot-button advocacy, the Power for Living campaign is closer to pure tract evangelism. Viewers who dial the 800 number receive the 134-page booklet, which employs simple metaphors like a country road or a broken golf club in support of the classic invitation. "All you do is, by an act of your will, say, 'I want You, Jesus, to take over my life.'" Participants in an earlier Power drive in 1983 have claimed that several million people ordered the book...
...come to D.C., each sporting a different accent and style, tourists generally come in two flavors: the family unit and the unending gang of noisy, rowdy kids. The target is a matter of personal preference. The locals tend to have more interaction with families, but I personally enjoy the pure entertainment value of high school seniors...
...sweating like James Brown, the Whitney Houston who took the stage July 17 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia was not the singer you've come to know from her recorded work; this Houston was deeper, tougher, feistier. Her voice is not as bottled-water pure as it once was, but it's more real now, breaking on the high notes, letting emotion spill out. She belted out her hits, of course--I Will Always Love You, You Give Good Love--but also soared through a gospel medley that took the crowd higher than mere...
Mishra knows that while the Ganges may be holy, it is not pure. It is filled with chemical wastes, sewage and even the remains of human corpses. The priest knows this because he is also head of the civil-engineering department at the local university. A hydraulics engineer, he is as comfortable discussing water-pump designs as he is giving spiritual guidance. Ever since he learned about the level of pollution in "Mother," as he calls the Ganges, Mishra, 59, has been squabbling with government authorities and pleading with other temple chiefs to clean up the river. "When I talk...
...board, by 10 percent. "It?s up to the Republican caucus what they want to do now about a final bill," says Branegan. "If they decide to try to attract some Democratic support, it?ll look more like the Roth plan. If they want to make an ideologically pure statement, it?ll be more like the House version." Clinton insists he doesn?t care what it looks like -- $792 million is too much. And so, for that matter, is the $500 billion proposed by some moderate Republicans. "The White House thinks it?s keeping the bidding low by publicly saying...