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...Mormons' spectacular industry and frugality. Their faith, like several varieties of American Protestantism, holds that Jesus will return to earth and begin a thousand-year rule, this glory preceded by a period of turmoil and chaos. During the dark years, church members understand that it is their destiny to sustain a light to help usher in the kingdom to come. In their preparations to do so, they shame even the most avid of secular survivalists. Church members are advised to keep one year's food and other supplies on hand at all times, and many do. The wheat-filled Welfare...
...restore investor confidence in a proposed $350 million stock offering, originally planned for next June but now on hold in view of Versace's death. The eagerly awaited sale was to have transformed Versace into a public company that could tap the stock market for funds to sustain its rapid growth. To be sure, the company can still show investors some impressive fashion strengths. Versace boasts highly skilled design teams, for example, that can respond quickly to changes in the marketplace. And the company's ownership of a majority stake in 10 of its manufacturing licensees enables it to turn...
Perhaps the thinking among the programming executives at Fox went something like this: if television can sustain three different nighttime soaps about the backbiting and the collagen-injected in three different monied precincts of Los Angeles, then perhaps it can also sustain three action-adventure series set among leather-wearing warriors and hooded-caped, albeit prophetic, senior citizens in the woodsy, fog-laden hills of fifth century Europe...
Still, the commission is under pressure to hand down a meaningful penalty, if only to sustain the hope that boxing is an industry that can contain its own pollutants. But driving Tyson out of the ring for good at a time when boxing is desperately short of star power would be very bad for business. Even a diminished Tyson remains an invincible money magnet. The fight with Holyfield brought in a record 1.8 million viewer buys and $90 million in pay-per-view revenue for the cable channel Showtime. The previous record holder? Tyson's previous fight with Holyfield...
...year's annual college report began euphemistically: "A spirit of cooperation has begun to replace the acrimonious Governing Body - JCR relations of previous years"). In the context of Britain, Oxford is still a repository of lost dreams and attitudes, with a life only as long as the memories that sustain...