Word: follow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair interviewed the controversial PTL founder at his home in Gatlinburg, Tenn., the questions inevitably became sensitive. Bakker grew livid. Recalls Hull: "His eyes smoldered. He got more fidgety. Then he leaped from his living-room chair and dashed to the kitchen in a huff. I started to follow after him, but was dissuaded by Bakker's cadre of supporters, who said a prayer for us." To many of Bakker's admirers, reporters seemed to need straightening out. "I endured long lectures by Bakker's followers, who scolded me for doing the devil's work," says Hull...
Though Archer has also filed suit against the News, he moved first against the Star, which printed a follow-up story six days after the original revelation. That story gave much more credence to the part of the episode that Archer continued to deny, the claim that he had had sex with Coghlan in a seedy London hotel one night last September. During the trial Coghlan, 36, who admitted to having sex with "thousands" of men during a 19-year career as a prostitute, testified that Archer had approached her in Shepherd Market, an area off fashionable Park Lane favored...
...such a rapid pace that they account for 80% of all stock transactions. Private investors are much more likely to sit tight with chosen stocks. But the more active individuals are finding their own tools and tricks. They now cut the cost of commissions by ordering through discount brokers, follow obscure companies through a growing number of newsletters, keep their holdings in convenient cash-management accounts and even get stock quotations through hand-held radio receivers...
...fear and force. Gorbachev is now telling both rulers and ruled that it runs badly. But to make the system run well, is Gorbachev willing to lead his comrades toward a future in which command and intimidation are replaced by consent and competition? If he tries, will they follow? If they do, will the resulting society still be the Soviet Union? To judge from the resistance that Gorbachev talks about openly, quite a few of his fellow citizens are worried not so much about ideological purity as about their own personal and bureaucratic interests...
...true to their heritage, such minority students must give up the Harvard society of which their peers are a part. The diverse student body, which is supposed to educate students here as much as courses do, never materializes as the diverse elements keep to themselves. The other possible course, following mainstream society, brings only nominal diversity because those who follow this path lose their heritage...