Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus, people appear to be receptive to Baha'i ideas, Harvard Baha'is say. Mohadjer says she thinks the college campus is a good place to spread the values of the faith...
...Academic communities tend to be very easy [to spread beliefs in] compared to other parts of America. [There are] more open minds, more of an intrigue in what's unusual. College campuses are generally quite productive places for people to become Baha'i," says Rhett Diessner, a second-year student at the Graduate School of Education. One becomes a Baha'i by making a declaration of faith, which can occur as early...
...American industries are currently more merger mad than banking. This year alone, scores of banks and savings and loan associations have joined forces with other institutions. Last week the fever spread all the way from New York City to Texas. First, Chemical New York, whose $56 billion in assets make it the seventh largest U.S. bank holding company, agreed to acquire Houston's Texas Commerce Bancshares (assets: $18.9 billion) for $1.19 billion. If completed, the merger will be among the biggest in U.S. banking history and will create the fourth largest bank company, behind Citicorp, BankAmerica and Chase Manhattan...
...emergence of faith and religion. In its extreme manifestations, this is no secret whatever. Iran is run by a spiritual leader who governs ruthlessly according to God's revelations. Our own country is filling up with people of political ambitions who claim to have God's ear. Some spread the gospel of Fundamentalism. Others preach intolerance and hate to giddy television audiences. The preachers smile quite well. These extremists have power, which derives less from dogma than from a deep public need to retrieve the values and comforts of belief. The preachers will be rejected eventually, but the need will...
...increasing dominance of CBS's largest stockholder (he controls 24.9% of the outstanding shares) was underlined once again last week. As Tisch and Paley emerged from a three-hour regular monthly session of the 14-member CBS board, word spread that directors had once again avoided choosing a Wyman successor. A seven-member search committee, headed by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, has met three times so far but has set no deadline for its task. The main reason for the committee's lassitude is that Tisch is not yet finished with his task of reorganizing the company...