Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Week is a major holiday throughout Latin America. But in revolutionary Nicaragua there were a few differences in the seasonal festivities. The Sandinista government announced that it would ban all radio broadcasts of Easter Masses unless the regime could censor pastoral sermons. Then, as half the country prepared to flock to the beach after their religious observances, the others girded...
...lucky objects of all this attention are the college students who flock to Daytona in an annual spring-break migration; some 300,000 are expected to visit this year over a six-week stretch. Other Florida beach towns have pressed their bid for the youth market, most notably Fort Lauderdale, setting for a frothy, 1960s-era movie, Where the Boys Are. But Daytona's casual, pro-student atmosphere and wide, drive-on beach have made it the site of both Expo America MusicFest and College Expo, events that combine the hard sell of a trade show with the good...
Much of what has gone wrong in the Caribbean traces to the very success of its economic development. Some 100 million tourists flock to the region every year. Hotels and condominiums are springing up almost everywhere, from the volcanic islands of the Antilles to the 100-mile-long stretch of hitherto virtually untouched barrier reef off the tiny Central American republic of Belize. Along with the vacationers has come a multitude of corporate enterprises: petrochemical plants, electronics factories, cement works. Attracted by special economic enticements and an eager labor force, industry now occupies or overlooks once pristine mangrove swamps...
...says Ron Saranow, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigations Division for the region. One of the local figures who most irritate California tax authorities is Armen Condo, a self-styled "maverick minister" who heads an organization called Your Heritage Protection Association, based in Orange County. With a dues-paying flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching an unusual gospel: since the U.S. dollar cannot be redeemed in gold or silver, it is therefore corrupt, therefore not "real," and therefore nobody owes any taxes. Finally charged with tax and mail fraud, Condo...
...decided to retire last year, the new minister, the Rev. Edward Voosen, was petrified. "Here was the whole institutional memory about to walk away," he says. He found salvation in a Radio Shack computer, which he now uses to keep track of the personal and familial problems of his flock. Voosen also charts the membership of his seven choirs, Sunday school, nursery school and church committees. "It's no miracle maker," he says. "But it sure makes life easier...