Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hold while he boozes, wenches, arranges elaborate practical jokes and, in this case, pursues a childish obsession. He will not start his movie until he slaughters an elephant. And why must he assault one of nature's noblest creatures? Precisely because, as he says, it's a sin -- one large enough, as he sees it, to match his own inflated ideas about himself...
...Everybody knows it would have been a conflictof interest," said Wells Professor of PoliticalEconomy Jerry R. Green, a colleague of Rosovsky'sin the Economics Department...
...takes his Atlanta record with him into parts of the state that consider that metropolis a den of sin and crime. To hear Young speak, he loosed a shower of gold over the city -- 1,000 new companies located there (300 from overseas), $70 billion invested ($11 billion from overseas), 700,000 new jobs created. Yet to critics, Atlanta should be his burden, not his boost. Lester Maddox, the clownish ex-Governor running for his old job, said to Young in a televised debate, "You ran Crime City." FBI statistics show a 50% increase in the crime rate during Young...
Faced with a projected 1991 deficit of $3 billion when he took office in January, Florio rejected the back-door approach of relying on increased "user fees" and "sin taxes" (on liquor and cigarettes) so popular among his peers. Instead he became the only Governor of this read-my-lips era to embrace the discarded notion of a progressive tax, which hits New Jersey's wealthiest residents hardest by doubling the bite on their income...
Homosexuals are not a "minority," opposition to whose behavior constitutes "discrimination." Homosexuality is a sin. One who feels such impulses is obligated to exercise self-control and not manifest his lewdness...