Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this regard that the split of feeling on the subject of homosexuality is sharpest among Christians. It has become fashionable among liberal Protestants to believe one of two things. The first is that because sins can be forgiven, it is OK to sin--that because Jesus loves all of us, He also loves all of our sins, or at least is unconcerned about them. Such a belief is obviously self-contradictory because words, thoughts, and deeds only become sins if the Lord disapproves of them...
...together its own top fund raisers with banking CEOS and a senior banking regulator, Eugene Ludwig, the Comptroller of the Currency. With this kind of revelation and the Senate's upcoming hearings into illegal contributions to his party, it is no wonder that Clinton is looking to change the subject-- from the ways in which the current laws may have been violated to the need to rewrite them. Until now, the problem with passing anything that would seriously change the way bribes flow through politics is that the politicians who would have to rewrite the laws have the greatest interest...
Four months ago, when Donald Trump arranged for his publicly held Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc. to buy his privately held Trump's Castle casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for $490 million, shareholders howled that they had been taken by the less than self-effacing subject of Trump:The Art of the Deal to the tune of some $100 million. Trump Hotels stock dropped 30% over the following weeks. More bad news rolled in when a reported $600 million deal to sell half of the Castle to the London-based Rank Organization and transform it into a Hard Rock...
...work, Te Deum, brought the audience to its feet with thunderous applause. This piece utilized a tenor, a full choir and a children's chorus. Its seven movements are taken from a liturgical text; Berlioz composed this piece soon after his father's death, which may have influenced his subject choice. After the grand introduction, Berlioz moves into some of the most beautiful melodies of his whole repertoire. Daring and original, this work demonstrates his mature style, his full mastery of blending orchestral and choral sounds...
...held a special place in the eyes of his parents--particularly his father. Attorney Johnnie Cochran, a friend of Bill Cosby's, says the actor's face lit up every time Ennis entered the room. Though he kept his family out of the public eye, Cosby would let the subject of Ennis drag out a conversation--with his son becoming a loving punch line to jokes. He was always keen to remind people that Ennis was a natural and graceful athlete, interrupting a 1985 Playboy interviewer, for example, to say, "Young Ennis...