Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What are PTL's prospects? Amazingly enough, attendance at Heritage USA is running 20% ahead of last year's levels. At week's end a banner at the entrance to the amusement park that had read MAY EMERGENCY had been altered to read MAY MIRACLE! The proclamation was the result of a surge of donations that enabled Falwell to raise the $7 million he said was needed by May 31. Now, however, another $20 million to $25 million within 90 days is being solicited by Falwell, who claims PTL requires that amount to consolidate its loans...
...have a responsibility to investigate who politicians are, and editors have a responsibility to present that news in a way comensurate with its importance. What editors choose to run and how prominently they run it affects the news, and this power requires good judgment. As a rule, front page banner headlines should be reserved for hard news, not stories with hazy implications about candidates' personalities...
...marched. We walked behind a banner that proclaimed "Take Back the Night" and posters of women with distorted faces, women who were angry. We strode purposefully across the Law School campus, through Cambridge Commons, down the streets of the town, past river houses and final clubs...
...while we sat near two more sailors from the ship in the Maison Bourbon jazz club, which flaunts an enormous banner outside the door: "Dedicated to the PRESERVATION of JAZZ." I suspect this is designed to fool gullible tourists into thinking they're in Preservation Hall, the legendary traditional jazz room across the street. By the time they realize the mistake they're too drunk to leave, having already bought three six dollar Hurricanes with the accompanying souvenir glass. Perhaps this happened to the sailors, who sat at a table near the stage surrounded on three sides by a senior...
...years since a Greek Orthodox priest first raised the banner of revolution against Ottoman rule, affairs of church and state in Greece have been closely intertwined. Last week in Athens the church, under the leadership of Archbishop Seraphim, again raised its standard, this time against the Socialist government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Black-robed priests joined more than 50,000 supporters outside Parliament, waving crucifixes and chanting, "Hands off the church...