Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be a missionary. He said, 'Oh, no. We have enough missionaries. We need people who will make a huge amount of money to support missionaries.'" DeMoss sold insurance to conservative Christians, whose clean living made them good health risks. Once his National Liberty Corp. went mainstream, its TV ads, featuring Art Linkletter and a prominently displayed toll-free number, pioneered direct marketing. DeMoss gave nearly half his salary to his missionary foundation. When he died on a tennis court at age 53, he added $200 million more. Says Campolo: "He kept his commitment from beyond the grave...
...foundation's first campaign to draw wide attention was a series of soft-focus TV spots with the tag line "Life. What a beautiful choice." Featuring tableaux of beautiful children who the ads noted had not been aborted, they aired in states facing abortion-related referendums and went national by 1993 at a cost estimated at $20 million a year. The commercials thrilled the antiabortion camp. Says National Right to Life Committee president Wanda Franz: "They ran daily for years. It was the kind of campaign an organization like ours could never have begun to touch...
...group's character. Of $25 million in expenditures, some $9 million paid for foreign evangelism. Domestically, roughly the same amount was put into a TV campaign for youth abstinence ("You're worth waiting for"). Thus three-fourths of DeMoss's giving qualifies as relatively noncontroversial. However, $1.6 million went to the American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit law firm founded by Pat Robertson that opposes gay marriage, defends abortion protesters and promotes various types of school prayer...
...young parents, there had been some hope that Callie and Becca's accidentally conjoined clans could let the girls share their lives together. A month after the deaths, the Chittums and the Rogerses, who share the care of Rebecca, and Johnson met and seemed to get along. The girls went swimming together in a family pool. Then Callie spent a week visiting Becca's extended family. "It went great," Tommy Rogers says. Both sides decreed that the girls would continue to live with all the families raising them...
...from her preferred launch-party site by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani when he learned that Hillary, his Senate rival, would be on Talk's cover (and not because party givers had planned to festoon the Brooklyn Navy Yard with thousands of condoms featuring the Talk logo). Undaunted, Brown went higher in the pantheon of landmarks and nailed down the Statue of Liberty. The buzz intensified when a prepublication parody on the Internet swept through the chattering classes, promising pieces about "celebrities who have died but still sleep with other celebrities," along with "Banter! Emotion! Solipsism! Pretension! Cold fusion...