Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live on fixed pensions at a time of 18% inflation, and the wage earners: two-thirds of France's 20 million workers struggle along on annual incomes of $4,800 or less. Salaries of upper-level executives average 4.6 times as much as blue-collar wages-the highest spread between employer and employee income in Europe...
...last week, before the Japanese worker had much of a chance to either save his new-found wealth or spend it on the television sets and tape recorders that he makes, doubts spread as to whether anyone had really won any thing worthwhile. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka warned that the big pay raises could set off a vicious wage-price spiral that would boomerang against consumers and threaten Japan's competitiveness in world markets. The workers themselves, who had gone so far as to stage a two-day transportation strike to press their demands, concede gloomily that most...
...elements. However, his orientation is evident in his concern for preaching, his longtime presidency of the world union of Bible societies, his interest in the "Feed the Minds" campaign to supply Christian reading to newly literate peoples, and his major recent project, "Call to the North," an attempt to spread the Gospel in the north of England...
Coggan is horrified by the spread of pornography and has spoken of Britain as a "sick society" that would become healthy when "it starts living by some rules again. There's a lot to be said for the Ten Commandments." But he has publicly advocated more compassionate treatment of homosexuals, and is far from indifferent to poverty and racial problems in England and abroad. "This insular island must have its attention drawn to the Third World and its needs," Coggan said last week, and as for apartheid, he has publicly stated that it is incompatible with Christian beliefs...
...Methodist merger plan, and he now sees that effort as part of a "larger unity program" encompassing all Christians. Indeed, his own Call to the North program involves 52 denominational leaders, including Catholics and Salvation Army workers, who meet regularly at York to discuss how best to spread the word of God. Coggan appears receptive to the ordination of women, a practice that has never occurred in Anglicanism except for a handful of cases in Hong Kong. "It is now an open question," Coggan says. "The emotions are less and the intelligent approach has increased-I would not be surprised...