Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roberts, says Harrell, had a "flirtation with respectability in the 1960s and 1970s," when he left the faith-healing circuit to build Oral Roberts University, of which he is president. The 4,650-student campus includes an 11,500-seat arena and schools of medicine, theology, business, education and nursing. The overall complex, with its 60-story clinic and other medical buildings, retirement apartments and two visitors' centers, is valued at $500 million...
From his years as a dinner speaker for General Electric, Reagan has been a master of the art of exhortation. Indeed, the day before he journeyed to the Tidal Basin to stand beneath the bronze statue of Jefferson, the President told his Cabinet, "The mashed-potato circuit is still out there, and I may be right back on it." So why not start now, while he still commands the world's airwaves and has his jet to get him around...
Five judges of federal circuit courts of appeals, all conservatives, appeared to have good prospects...
...proved a quick study in the pool hall and the cockpit. Now Tom Cruise, 24, has shifted gears again to test his learning curve on the auto racetrack. Cruise took the wheel of a Nissan 300 ZX turbo sports car last week while making his pro circuit racing debut at the Road Atlanta race course in Braselton, Ga. His wife of two months, Actress Mimi Rogers, cheered from the pit. So did his new pal and Money co-star, Paul Newman, 62, a veteran race-car driver who later took the wheel of his own 300 ZX in another division...
...Ninth Circuit...