Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, state and local lawmakers have tried to skirt U.S. Supreme Court decisions barring prayer in public schools. One of the most direct challenges to the court came last week in Alabama, where Governor Fob James Jr. signed a bill allowing teachers to lead "willing" students in prayer. The bill recommended a prayer written by the Governor's son, Fob James III, 25, a Mobile attorney, in a spirit of patriotic ecumenism. It reads: "We acknowledge you as the Creator and Supreme Judge of the world. May your justice, your truth and your peace abound this...
...arriving at the site virtually in kit form and being assembled room by room, each module having been delivered complete, down to the toilet-paper holders in the bathrooms. Even the hospital's prayer room, which has mosque carpets and lighting directed toward Mecca, was built in Alabama and transported overseas...
...York has more professional sports than boroughs. Boston has Larry Bird. Carl Yastrzemski and the Marathon. Los Angeles has Magic Johnson and Steve Garvey; Alabama has The Tide, and Indianapolis has The Race. Each year on the Sunday before Memorial Day, an estimated 375,000 people gather for "The Greatest Single-Day Sporting Event In The World," the Indy 500. Officially the race doesn't have a name. it is the only event held at the Indianapolis Motor Speed-way each year, and the tickets say simply, "500 mile race." But to a large segment of the American auto-racing...
...courtship is prickly. At Annie's insistence, John must woo Helen for her consent before he can win Annie for his bride. At first, Helen fears that she will be forced to go back to her parents' home in Alabama and vegetate like "a cow." But between John's charms and Annie's assurances, Helen is won over. She gives her blessing and brings down the first-act curtain with the imperious "You must be married in this house...
...will take $15 million off the rack this year, estimates WWD, and Ralph Lauren, 42, is close behind at $12 million. The money paid to college football coaches was also being checked out. Last week the Miami Herald reported that as the best-paid coach in the U.S., Alabama's Paul ("Bear") Bryant, 68, collects close to $450,000 a year from salary, television and radio sources, and various perquisites. That sum is well above the $240,000 that the Herald says is going annually to the third-highest-paid coach, Texas A&M's Jackie Sherrill...