Word: shuns
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...holy vision are building a pulpit in the boardroom. According to an analysis based on data from investment tracker Morningstar, 58 faith-based mutual funds have formed since 2001, bringing the running total to 142. And faith-based investors' tactics have become much more aggressive: they no longer just shun certain industries, such as tobacco, gambling or weapons manufacturing. Mirroring a greater trend in socially responsible investing, they are now buying stocks and leveraging pressure from the inside to promote their agendas. For instance, Mennonite Mutual Aid funds, which wants companies to be proactive in curbing HIV and AIDS, helped...
...Height of Xi Shun, 54, a herdsman from Inner Mongolia, surpassing Tunisia's Radhouane Charbib as the world's tallest living...
...least a system that can cooperate with real, full-blown capitalism to a greater degree than any other in the Communist world. In the centuries-old Chinese debate between those who are eager to learn from the more modern world outside and those who shun it, Mao came down completely on the side of xenophobia and cut China off almost totally from foreign goods, money and culture. Deng has opened the country to imports of everything from machinery to the ubiquitous tape recorders and portable stereos. He has proclaimed an "open-door policy" toward foreign investment--unperturbed by the reminiscences...
DIED. Herbert W. Armstrong, 93, autocratic founder-leader of the 75,000-member Worldwide Church of God; in Pasadena, Calif. Forsaking an advertising career in 1934 to become a radio preacher and self-proclaimed "Chosen Apostle" of God, Armstrong taught that Christians should deny the Trinity, shun medical care (though he used it as his own health deteriorated) and that remarried members should divorce their second spouses and rejoin their first (though he repealed that dictum in 1976 and a year later married a divorcée). Fanatically loyal members, many of them poor, tithed as much as $75 million...
...yourself: buy a horse, scale mountains, collect rare butterflies--all pursuits that require money in addition to what you'll need just to live. Not only that, if you do fall seriously ill, you'll want the best medical care you can afford. Still, you are absolutely right to shun probate in California: it costs your heirs a bundle. But if you leave your partner your house and money in a will, probate is just what you'll get, say California attorneys. Michael Gilfix, a Palo Alto, Calif., estate-planning and elder-law attorney, recommends putting everything you own (except...