Word: wakeful
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Riley tracked down Presidential Candidate Pat Robertson and other preachers. "In the wake of the PTL scandal, some of the loudest calls for openness and accountability have come from the televangelists," notes Riley. Indeed, some offered thin press releases and unrevealing brochures to show good faith. That only indicated, as this week's stories attest, that most TV ministries have a long way to go before their financial disclosures are as effective as their preaching...
...three-month period ending in May and projects a $21 million shortfall through next March. The Roberts organization has admitted that monthly donations to the ministry dipped from $4.5 million to about $3 million in April and May. Falwell has reported a $4 million deficit in the wake of the scandals, and Schuller admits to a "significant" dip during March and April...
...past month, and especially in the wake of the Central Committee session, Gorbachev has moved decisively in the direction of what he calls radical reform. Before the plenum, some Western analysts suspected that perestroika was largely a rhetorical exercise backed by a set of diluted half- measures. But Gorbachev's latest proposals, along with recent declarations by some of his key economic advisers, point to more far-reaching structural changes. Economist Abel Aganbegyan, for example, has advocated letting prices rise to market levels. At present, government subsidies on such items as food, clothing and shelter run to $114 billion...
...People should never forget to give thanks to our farsighted Founding Fathers. The document they hammered out that hot summer 200 years ago has stood firm and has had a long-lasting effect on the world. It has enabled our nation to be flexible in the wake of change while upholding the rights of each citizen...
That thriving thatched-cottage industry of Britain -- writing very, very long romance novels -- is carried on these days by a new generation of hard- fingered women with tea cozies, cats and killer word processors. Close in the wake of Sally Beauman's Destiny comes Celia Brayfield's first novel, Pearls. Brayfield's protagonists are the fabulous Bourton sisters: Catherine, the "Mona Lisa of Wall Street," and Monty, the international rock star, who wake up one morning to find priceless pink pearls under their pillows. What do the gifts mean? Can they have anything to do with the sisters' late father...