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...Bakker's faith in God and man, though reduced to the proportions of cars and boats, is not based on greed. Like the cargo cults, the South Sea islanders who worshipped the army transport planes that bought unimaginable riches of K-rations and surplus hardware, the Bakkers grasp best the material manifestations of the divine. Welfare checks number not among such miracles: "Why can't man throw money at his problems? Because God wants things to be in accord with His will... We're tired of all the hype. We want to go back to old foundations." When God speaks...
Harvard has agreed, however, to allow the business association to use the current surplus in the Business School parking lot for employees and customers of the Square, and the association plans to operate a shuttle service across the river...
...eight-and nine-year-old calypso dancers at an airport welcome. Edward Seaga, the pro-business Prime Minister whose election in October 1980 ousted a leftist government, proudly ticked off signs of Jamaica's economic revival: positive economic growth after eight years of slump; the first foreign-exchange surplus since 1974; lower inflation; slightly less unemployment. He gave full credit to U.S. aid, which under Reagan has been generous indeed. Jamaica (pop. 2,250,000) now ranks fourth in the world in American aid per capita; only Israel, Egypt and El Salvador get more...
...every member of the group will be borrowing money. Small states like Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates should remain comfortably in surplus, but hard-pressed countries with large populations, such as Nigeria and Indonesia, will have significant deficits. Richard O'Brien, an economist with American Express Bank in London, estimates that this year Nigeria and the other populous OPEC nations will probably have to sell off assets worth some $25 billion and then still have to borrow about $5 billion from banks...
...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...