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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fuad Al-Omar, vice president of finance for the Islamic Development Bank, described the Islamic investment process by which investors avoid firms that profit from forbidden activities, such as interest, gambling and alcohol, as well as firms with a great deal of debt, and seek "cleansing" through giving some types of income to charity...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Islamic Banking Database Unveiled | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

Thus, students must turn to alumni to seek donations specifically for the purpose of increasing Harvard's commitment to ethnic studies. Granted, it is difficult for students to convince alumni that ethnic studies is a cause worth giving to when Knowles is not saying the same thing, but that money will be the root of any real change...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Student Activists, Heed This Advice | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

Second in the current proposal is a call for the Core program's committees to seek out departmental courses "that may be appropriate for inclusion in the Core," and the review of those committee's guidelines for allowing a course into the Core...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: CRC Outlines Core Reform Proposal | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...influences to create a serious behavioral disorder. Therapists have long known of patients who, in addition to having psychological problems, abuse drugs as well. Could their drug problems be linked to some inborn quirk? Might an inability to absorb enough dopamine, with its pleasure-giving properties, cause them to seek gratification in drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADDICTED: WHY DO PEOPLE GET HOOKED? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...over what must have been an incredibly long night in Philadelphia during the Christmas season of 1786. Cherrycoke is given to utterances such as the following: "The Pilgrim, however long or crooked his Road, may keep ever before him the Holy Place he must by his faith seek, as the American Ranger, however indeterminate or unposted his Wilderness, may enjoy, ever at his Back, the Impulse of Duty he must, by his Honor, attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DRAWING THE LINE | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

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