Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angered and saddened this evening when I walked through Harvard Square to see the huge poster in your window of Oliver North, proclaiming "Lt. Col. Oliver North: a Real American." Choosing to sell this poster showed bad judgment. Choosing to so proudly and prominently display it showed more than bad judgment--it showed gross moral insensitivity...
...televangelists and how well are those multimillion-dollar stewardships handled? What exactly happened at PTL? Could it affect other major television ministries? To answer these important questions, which involve hundreds of thousands of devout Americans and the huge amounts of money they give, TIME conducted a month-long investigation of these often secretive organizations. In the process of piecing together a comprehensive picture of the inner workings of PTL and other ministries, correspondents scrutinized hundreds of documents and crisscrossed the U.S. to speak with the key performers and more than 100 inside sources, many of whom had previously refused...
Increasingly, a growing number of Americans are focusing on the doings of the huge, semisecret gospel business empires like PTL that have sprung up in little more than a decade of fervent television preaching (see following story). Many are not happy with what they see. A Gallup poll survey this spring showed that since 1980 there has been a sharp decline in American public esteem for four of the country's most important TV preachers: Oklahoma- based Oral Roberts (whose approval rating dropped from 66% to 28%), Swaggart (76% to 44%), Virginia's Pat Robertson (65% to 50%) and California...
...than wit, but it serves to deflate the pomp without completely devaluing the circumstance. Violence pervades the landscape, yet Parker always pauses to evoke compassion for the victims. And despite the ebullient entertainment, his purpose is as serious as ever: to remind readers that so-called victimless crimes generate huge amounts of cash, which can then be used to suborn -- and victimize -- the very political system that citizens rely on for protection...
Stragetic Nuclear Forces. The critical question, says Hyland, is whether Gorbachev is willing "to recognize something along the lines of our version of stability." That would require the Soviets to cut their huge arsenal of silo-busting warheads, which pose a first-strike threat that could pre-empt the ability of the U.S. to retaliate. Some Soviet officials say they have come to accept the U.S. concepts of parity and are willing to go further by cutting back to a level of "minimal deterrence." That would involve each side keeping only enough weapons to assure that it could retaliate credibly...