Word: jims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government has a lot more to do with how people feel about their world than how "experts" vainly try to make it. I once found myself standing in a park in Bolivar, Tennesse listening to Senator Jim Sasser give a speech. An old farm lady who saw my grey suit came up to me with tears in her eyes. She wanted to thank me for what the Senator and his staff had done. They had gotten her son discharged from the Marines when the Marines were about to put him in jail for two years...
...addition, Falwell said Founders Jim and Tammy would continue "indefinitely" to receive their salaries, though he said he did not know the amount. In recent years, says the Observer, the couple has amassed $700,000 worth of real estate and luxury cars, including a $404,000 home now up for sale in Palm Desert, Calif. Last week they were in residence at a borrowed Palm Springs mansion, while Tammy continued outpatient treatment at the Betty Ford Center for addiction to prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The loss of their ministry, said Tammy, has hit them very hard. "Jim...
...Francisco's Stanford Court is perennially rated America's No. 1 hotel by CEOs. To ensure its heady reputation, President Jim Nassikas decided to add a power touch. Along with the mints and fuzzy bathrobes, he tucked a $16.95 copy of a dictionary next to the Bible in each room. "Our hotel competitors are caught up in shampoo wars," says Nassikas. "A dictionary is more useful...
...history on his side. If Troy Maxson turns tyrant, betraying his wife with a younger woman and blasting his son's chances for an athletic scholarship to college, his demand for autocratic power is understandable, almost forgivable, in the context of his decades down South during the era of Jim Crow...
First it was Oral Roberts, announcing that God would take his life if backers did not send in millions. Then came Jim Bakker, admitting he paid heavy "blackmail" to cover up sexual sin. As fellow TV Stars Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell joined the controversy, a bystander, Pat Robertson, stood to lose the most from the Evangelicals' questionable deeds. See RELIGION...