Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bakker by turning control over to Bakker's Pentecostal denomination, the 2.1 million-member Assemblies of God, subject to Judge Reynolds' approval. An Assemblies spokesman was dumbfounded. The judge must now decide not only who should run the place but how to keep it alive. Falwell says PTL's cash-starved cable network may survive only three more weeks. The outgoing team has offered to assist in an orderly transition, assuming anything orderly is possible, when someone is found with the temerity to try managing...
Buddy is looking pretty flustered. It looks like he hasn't got the cash on him, and is dreading having to ask the waiter if he'll accept an Eastern Bloc credit card. "Let me see," he says. "How about the peacekeeping we've been doing on our own in Afghanistan? Don't we get some credit for footing the bill there...
Hollywood has begun to cash in on the undercurrent of women's rage at men. In Fatal Attraction, currently the nation's top box-office draw, Actress Glenn Close enacts the ultimate female revenge fantasy. While Close's character eventually reveals herself as a murderous psycho, she has a number of exchanges with her married lover early in the film that hit home with every woman ever scorned ( "I woke up. You weren't here. I hate that"). Says one Washington woman who saw the film with two girlfriends: "Afterward, we talked about all the boyfriends we ever had wanted...
...three men were convicted earlier this year in an elaborate scheme involving a bogus construction company and tax-exemption frauds. They handed the $320,000 the company collected over to the I.N.L.A. The judge in the case, Michael Nicholson, called the swindles "one of the most important sources of cash for terrorists...
...observers would insist that such opportunism is, in Tocqueville's word, noble. Yet not many would feel it wrong to cash in on otherwise profitless situations. Perhaps crass, tacky or vulgar (as in the latest Jim & Tammy enterprise: Area Code 900 Dial-the-Bakkers taped messages that might bring as much as $100,000 a month from the 25 cents they get for every $1.50 toll a phoning fan must pay), but not immoral...