Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complex, including the 4,650-student Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Hospital. Annual budget: some $120 million. Robert Schuller, 60, who was ordained by the Reformed Church in America, broadcasts his syndicated weekly Hour of Power shows from the $20 million Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., and takes in some $42 million annually...
...Falwell spoke, the PTL scandal continued to cast a pall across the entire secretive big business of televangelism. As never before, "skeptics have fuel for their fires," said David Hubbard, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. "They may see this as reflecting on the excesses of the whole evangelical movement...
Under pressure from Edwards, the FBI began to look into the threats on July 17. Later that day armed men abducted Ana Maria Lopez, 31, a Guatemalan woman involved in helping Central American refugees. After warning her to stop criticizing the Salvadoran government, the kidnapers dumped her in Pomona, Calif., 25 miles east of Los Angeles. "They told her that just as people are killed in Central America, they can be killed here," says Linton Joaquin, director of the Central American Refugee Center in Los Angeles...
...sold would run on business computers. When 750 U.S. executives were polled by Epyx, creator of Winter Games and Temple of Apshai, nearly 40% admitted that they had used their office computers for entertainment. Says Will Rodriguez, assistant manager of a B. Dalton's Software Etc. shop in Torrance, Calif.: "We sell an awful lot of games to people in business suits...
...Irish brogues of the puzzled mechanics swarming around the airplane informed him he was in Dublin, 6,000 miles off course. "I got up in the clouds and flew the wrong way," explained Corrigan, blaming a stuck compass. The folk hero, who now lives in Santa Ana, Calif., gave up his pilot's license 15 years ago. This time, to be sure he would make it back to New York, Wrong Way took the train...