Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the North Carolina daily, Bakker (pronounced baker) had a onetime sexual encounter with a 21-year-old church secretary during a visit to Florida. The two met in 1980, at a time when Bakker's 19-year marriage to his TV co-host Tammy Faye Bakker, now in her 40s, seemed to be foundering. (This month Tammy told her TV audience that she was drug dependent; she and her husband are currently being treated at a California center for addicts and their families.) The paper said that during 1985 the secretary and her representatives received $115,000 after...
...mistake, wrong, a crime, a sin . . . and what the Israeli officials did was wrong to initiate and even dumber to continue." Even normally pro-Israel U.S. legislators were embarrassed by Pollard's protestations that he had a "moral obligation" to spy for Israel. Such statements, said Florida Democratic Congressman Lawrence Smith, "are deeply distressing to American Jews, particularly those in the Government or close to it." On the other hand, Smith added, "much of the furor comes from circles that would be just as happy if there were not a U.S. relationship with Israel...
...Orangemen, ranked No. 10 nationally and second in the region behind the Tar Heels, held off upstart Florida 87-81 in the opening game at the Brendan Byrne Arena behind a career-high 33-point performance by center Rony Seikaly...
...slate of candidates--takes the reader through four alternative communities that popped up in America during the past two decades: the Castro, San Fransisco's gay neighborhood; Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church; the Rajneeshee community in Oregon; and the Sun City retirement village in Florida...
...years, the name Kroh stood for quality and reliability in the real estate industry. Kansas City-based Kroh Brothers Development built homes, shopping centers and office buildings from California to Florida. Along the way, it attracted such blue-chip investors in its projects as Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and the Hall family of Hallmark greeting-card fame. But in the past few months, Kroh has virtually collapsed. Beset by lawsuits and shunned by wary lenders, the company is now struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 provisions of the bankruptcy law. The brothers...