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Ministers are often the first to see the dangers of supply-side spirituality. "Patterning the church after a mega-supermarket can only lead us to failure," warns Methodist D. Stephen Long of Duke University's Divinity School. "I'm not opposed to the churches using some marketing techniques, but I fear what is happening is that marketing techniques are beginning to use the church. We can't target groups we want for the church simply by locating points of desire. Somewhere there's got to be some judgment about whether these desires are appropriate." He rejects the notion that...
...Tuesday, Feb. 23, Salameh rented the van for a week, putting down $400 in cash. Three days later -- and less than three hours after the Trade Center bombing -- Salameh showed up again and, presenting the keys as proof, claimed that the van had been stolen from a supermarket parking lot the night before and asked for his $400 back. He was told he would have to report the theft to the police. On Monday, March 1, Salameh came back, again asked for his $400 and once more was told he would have to present a police report of the theft...
...example, was lifted for individual travelers. "We enjoy drinking wine, but we cannot afford it at British prices," said Barbara Green, the wife of a taxi driver from the British port of Ramsgate whose family went on a cross-Channel shopping spree. Charging down the aisles of a Calais supermarket, the Greens scooped up five crates of beer, five bottles of whiskey and 38 bottles of wine. "These are for our wedding anniversary," she said. With Barbara's mother stocking up on brandy and champagne, the family spent $434, probably less than a third of what the goods cost...
Recall, for instance, the demonstration that took place in a Riyadh supermarket during the buildup to the Gulf War in November 1990, when seventy women from prominent Saudi families dismissed their chauffeurs and drove by themselves in protest of the driving restrictions...
...late 1970s Esposito pleaded guilty to the attempted abduction of a seven-year-old boy from a shopping mall. In 1988 he applied to join the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization, which offers role models to children from single-parent homes. When suspicious officials turned him down, he used a supermarket bulletin board to offer himself as a freelance mentor...