Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep out blacks from Detroit. In retaliation, the N.A.A.C.P. organized a boycott of Dearborn's stores, including those at Fairlane Town Center, a 2,360-acre complex that includes the state's largest shopping mall. Before the boycott, an estimated 28% of Fairlane's shoppers were black. Says the Rev. Charles Adams, minister of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and head of the Detroit N.A.A.C.P.: "They welcome us to shop in their stores, but don't allow us to stop in their parks. If we're not good enough to stop, we feel we're too good to shop...
Among clergymen of all races was the Rev. Beyers Naude, 70, an Afrikaner whose spiritual journey from faith in apartheid to the struggle for Black rights has made him a symbol of white liberalism...
Last spring more than 5000 people crowded the steps of Memorial Church on the anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s death to listen to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and join a rally for divestment. That night, April 4, about 75 protesters camped outside President Derek C. Bok's office and created a non-violent obstacle course for the secretaries and executives attempting to enter the building. Three weeks later, 45 divestment activists staged an eight-hour sit-in at 17 Quincy St., the headquarters of Harvard's governing board. And the following week, about...
...conservative who tried to stay above politics. But since his death in 1983, many of the clergy have become more activist. A small minority of priests and nuns support the Communist-dominated New People's Army insurgency against Marcos. Few clergy, though, have followed the example of the Rev. Conrado Balweg, who since 1979 has lived in the jungles with N.P.A. fighters...
During 1985 the U.S. economy performed below its potential, sputtering along like a Corvette with a clogged carburetor. America's output grew only 2.3%, compared with a full-throttle 6.6% in 1984. But TIME's Board of Economists, * which met last week in Manhattan, predicts that the country will rev its engine again this year. The group believes that the gross national product will expand by about 3.3% during 1986, a brisk if not blistering pace...