Word: sin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Homosexuality is an abominable crime to many Christians. It's also something scorned rather than celebrated throughout the history of Western civilization. Still, it's possible to hate the sin and love the sinner. Consider someone who harms himself through smoking or poor eating habits. One can criticize that person's lifestyle, suggest they modify that behavior and still extend them compassion and support...
...things that way, is Charles Hurwitz, a Houston-based junk-bond wizard who plays the corporate-villain role well. Charlie's sin? He owns the trees, and he'll cut them if he wants to--and does he want to. In 1986 his company, MAXXAM (1995 sales: $2.57 billion), bought Pacific Lumber, the redwoods' owner. Hurwitz visited PL's Scotia, California, mill, and told workers he believed in the golden rule: "He who has the gold, rules." Then he drained $55 million from PL's $93 million pension fund, and cranked up the timber cut to pay off his debt...
...Homemade, the Waterbury, Vermont-based superpremium ice-cream maker that vaulted to prominence with its quirky management style and equally quirky flavors, including Chubby Hubby and Chunky Monkey. Ben and Jerry have made a very public effort to put the environment, politics and people before profits--an unpardonable sin in the canon of Wall Street and a style that worked so long as Baby Boomers were ignoring their fat intake and scarfing Cherry Garcia by the pint...
...poster girl, her Bible beating turned off the public at large. Along with her popularity, she eventually lost a $100,000-a-year contract with the Florida Citrus Commission. Her 20-year marriage to manager Bob Green also ended. Bryant had once denounced divorce as a sin; today, it seems, she's been reborn. In 1990 she married former NASA test crewman Charlie Dry, a childhood sweetheart from Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Last year the two purchased the Anita Bryant Theater in Branson, Missouri, where she performs country oldies and gospels each week to growing crowds. She shies away from discussing homosexual...
...napkins in a meaningless symmetry or checking a hundred times to make sure the electric coffeemaker is turned off. Themes of dirt, contamination or germs rule their thoughts, and other common obsessions center on horrific or violent images, a need for symmetry or exactness, or an exaggerated sense of sin or morality...