Word: kudzu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strongholds of the video preachers across the South and West. Los Angeles Correspondent Michael Riley and Reporter Bill Blanning interviewed many of the principals in the story, including Tammy Faye Bakker. Meanwhile, Atlanta Correspondent B. Russell Leavitt assessed the deep Fundamentalism of the Southern states. Says he: "Driving through kudzu-covered country on a Sunday morning and flipping the radio dial, one can hear the evangelists by the score. They are a constant refrain, a fixture in the landscape...
...clear: "To bring the Democratic Party back to the mainstream of Southern thinking." With probably 15 Southern and border states selecting about 30% of the 1988 convention delegates during the week of March 8, the field seemed tailored for a moderate Democrat who could tell the difference between kudzu and ivy. But likely Southern entries retreated from the fray: Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers and former Virginia Governor Charles Robb declared themselves out, and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn has temporized...
There are certain words that English ought to have but does not. One is a word for the opposite of memory. Oblivion is not quite it. Forgettery? That swampy region in the southland of the brain where everything we have forgotten now lies, overgrown with kudzu, something like an enormous automobile graveyard...
Despite the 1927 Pepper-McFadden Act and many similar state laws that forbid banks to set up branch offices outside their home state, major institutions have exploited technicalities to spread like kudzu across the landscape. Citicorp now operates 980 offices in 41 states. Comptroller of the Currency Conover gave the movement a boost this month by approving permits for 83 so-called nonbank banks. These are institutions that can take deposits and provide all other financial services except making commercial loans. Banks have also tried to boost their share of the mortgage market by acquiring thrift institutions, the traditional source...