Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explore Scientology's reach, TIME conducted more than 150 interviews and reviewed hundreds of court records and internal Scientology documents. Church officials refused to be interviewed. The investigation paints a picture of a depraved yet thriving enterprise. Most cults fail to outlast their founder, but Scientology has prospered since Hubbard's death in 1986. In a court filing, one of the cult's many entities - the Church of Spiritual Technology - listed $503 million in income just for 1987. High-level defectors say the parent organization has squirreled away an estimated $400 million in bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus...
Last October, Sterling broke some bad news to another dentist, Glover Rowe of Gadsden, Ala., and his wife Dee. Tests showed that unless they signed up for auditing, Glover's practice would fail, and Dee would someday abuse their child. The next month the Rowes flew to Glendale, Calif., where they shuttled daily from a local hotel to a Dianetics center. "We thought they were brilliant people because they seemed to know so much about us," recalls Dee. "Then we realized our hotel room must have been bugged." After bolting from the center, $23,000 poorer, the Rowes say, they...
Rohuil, 18, said that her family had been harrassed by the Haitian government because of her father's political activism. Americans, she said, often fail to recognize such political burdens in their dealings with immigrants...
...nature of civil disobedience mandates that those who participate are willing to make personal sacrifices for their cause. It is this willingness that transforms a slumber party in an administrative office into a genuine act of protest. "We will try to persuade with our words, but, if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts," said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1960. "We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary, and even risk our lives to become witnesses to the truth...
...fires in the graphite that holds the fuel. And because the reactor had no containment structure, it was vulnerable to terrorists. Perhaps that is why the nuclear-power industry is quietly backing away from the "inherently safe" label. If anything disastrous happened to a reactor advertised as totally fail-safe, confidence in the technology might never recover...