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Still, most see the effect of the Christian churches as a political phenomenon rather than a spiritual one--as a substitute for less permissible forms of social organization and opposition to the government. It was the churches' presence, and not their prayers, which worked against communist governments.
For those people, who wage daily battles against Peruvian Grease Platters in the dining hall and rotating scale dials in the bathroom, there is a new ice cream substitute.
Other manufacturers have rushed to create fat substitutes, such as olestra and Simplesse. These compounds, which have not yet received Food and Drug Administration approval, mimic the texture of fats but have considerably fewer or no calories. Liebman, whose group believes olestra is potentially cancer promoting, applauds Hostess and Entenmann...
He has tried to apply that principle at home and in Eastern Europe, where he attributed the stagnation of the economy and the discontent of the populace to "miscalculations by the ruling parties." The East European regimes had long taken it for granted that their Big Brothers in Moscow would...
Substitute Social Security checks and Christmas cards for fudge caramels, imagine 150,000 annual grievance proceedings and 69,000 disciplinary actions instead of firing, and a picture of the modernized Postal Service emerges. Officials downplay the problems but admit that the new pace is hard on older clerks accustomed to...