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Most birding zealots are at a loss to explain this lavish expenditure of time and energy. "It's just something I have to do," says Richard Turner, a professor of fine arts at New York University, falling into the familiar language of helplessness that marks the committed birder. The backyard and occasional fanciers should consider themselves lucky, according to Pete Dunne of the New Jersey Audubon Society. "Those people are still in control of their lives," he says. "For the rest of us, birding controls us. We're addicts...
...board installed as its new chief operating officer Harry Hargrave, 38, a Presbyterian who is a Dallas investment consultant and specialist in theme parks. Hargrave told the staff that PTL will now emphasize "glorifying God" and "obeying the laws of the land." He faces a signal task. PTL has lavish building plans, a payroll of 2,000 and debts of $50 million, including $14.7 million owed to Messner...
Jerry Falwell, the Lynchburg, Va., Baptist Fundamentalist who assumed the post of PTL chairman in mid-March, last week reviewed the lavish compensation ( that has been made in the past to Bakker and his fellow PTL officials. Falwell's reaction: "outrageous" and "indefensible." Among the disbursements were $350,000 in 1986 and $270,000 in the first quarter of 1987 to Richard Dortch, 55, the new president of PTL and Bakker's former chief aide; $360,000 last year and $250,000 as of March to David Taggart, 29, another Bakker aide; $160,000 in 1986 and $50,000 this...
Life has been tough at General Motors. The No. 1 U.S. automaker has shut plants, laid off thousands of workers and otherwise struggled to regain an < eroding market share. Now, with labor contract talks coming soon, GM is taking a new step on the road to austerity: lavish annual cash bonuses for executives will be replaced by stock options tied to GM's financial performance...
...invited the people he liked to these lavish parties in his apartment, parties that were way above the typical academic standards," says Richard Macris, a former student. "There was lots of good champagne and it was decorated with the original works of art and Navajo rugs he collected. It was a very elegant place...