Word: haciendas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front row. Now and then, Jimmie Walker -- you know, J.J. on Good Times? -- plays with our band." But, generally, Banks has kept his hometown in perspective. "It's a good place to lose money, and it never snows." Banks' father is a bellman at the Hacienda, his mother a housekeeper at the Union Plaza. "Everyone's dream here is the N.B.A.," he says, but a few have ended up at the M.G.M. Banks says, "It's my dream too," though he is preparing to fall back on the city's second leading industry, social work...
...Lord) Network in Charlotte, N.C. The network ranks second to Robertson's CBN in Christian cable (13 million households, 24 hours, all religion). The featured offering is the daily Jim and Tammy show, a variety-and-talk program with Bakker and his wife as hosts on an opulent, hacienda-style set with orchestra, singers and live audience. Bakker's receipts exceed $100 million a year. Much of the money is eaten up by his Heritage USA theme park, opened in 1978 near Fort Mill, S.C., and already the third-largest such attraction in the country, with nearly 5 million visitors...
...even the rich family in Casmalia shares the concerns. Dave Tompkins came to ranch in 1937, after college, and he now has many hundreds of cattle, many hundreds of acres, and oil leases. Mature olive trees and enormous pink roses line the front yard of his splendid hacienda. "Something's wrong," says his wife. Dave nods. "There is something funny going on," he says...
...fashionable boutiques and crafts shops along the nearby Avenida Juarez were not to open for several hours, interns had started making their rounds in a complex of hospitals within the National Medical Center. It was a bit early for much activity in the wealthy northwestern and southern neighborhoods, where hacienda-style houses sit next to modernistic concrete- and-glass homes. But life begins early each day in the overcrowded shantytowns at the edge of the sprawling city, where unemployment stands at 12% and underemployment is estimated...
...Justice Department followed up one report that placed the doctor on a hacienda in Texas, another that had him arriving on a Miami-bound plane. He was said to have taken vacations in Egypt, Italy and Greece, and by one account, to have spent time in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Often he was said to be living in a heavily fortified villa in the Paraguayan hinterland, complete with a Mercedes-Benz 280SL and four armed guards. According to Simon Wiesenthal, the doctor was most recently spotted last summer in a Mennonite village in Paraguay called Valendam. One year earlier, in fact...