Word: rising
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Armstrong's step-by-step march down the years shows how a succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine onto...
...most disheartening part of Franklin Graham's rise to power was the brief mention of his sister Anne Graham Lotz, one of Billy Graham's three daughters, "an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift." It is obvious that no one--not herself nor her father nor his organization--even considered Lotz to be the one to whom the "mantle may be passed." Instead it was forced on the son, the rightful male heir, according to some patriarchal notion of manifest destiny. Perhaps today's preachers should be as mindful...
...Europe in 1991. He was nominated by President Clinton to the top naval post in March 1994, when his predecessor, Admiral Frank Kelso II, had to retire early in response to criticism of his handling of the 1991 Tailhook sex-harassment episode. As the first enlisted man ever to rise to the Navy's top spot, Boorda was known, and widely liked, as a "sailor's sailor," and he set about restoring ethical standards and pride to the troubled service branch...
...chorus of heckling rises and subsides. Gorbachev presses on. "Yeltsin's reforms have benefited no more than 10% of the population," he says. "That must stop." A few dozen in the audience now rise, clapping. "On the other hand," he adds quickly, spreading his arms to still the applause, "we must not forget how many ordinary citizens the Communists oppressed. Do you think they will not do the same if you vote for them...
...getting any better." Jordan, who last week appointed retired Air Force General James B. Davis as ValuJet's new "safety czar," remains convinced, though, that his company--and passengers--can again fly high. "We will be better than just keeping afloat," he insists. "We will recover from this and rise to a new level of customer confidence and become a fine airline." Much of that depends, of course, on answers still buried deep in the Florida swamp...