Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people have in their house. Winthrop residents would probably have preferred "crowded" to any other description of their three-year home by the Charles. But it wasn't on the list. Also, isn't an athlete likely to describe his House as "athletic," or an artist as "artistic," no matter what other people think? Finally, who knows whether a certain House is "civilized" or "distinctive" or "stimulating"? I don't, and so I didn't check those descriptions...
Nancy Seddinger, who runs a real estate business in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., learned last December that her company owed $22,000 in interest and fines. The company accountant contacted the IRS to question the ruling and try to reach some sort of settlement. But in February, with the matter still / unresolved, the agency grabbed the firm's bank account. Seddinger could not meet her payroll and had to halt operations. Her Congressman, Democratic Representative Robin Tallon, later managed to get the bank accounts released, but Seddinger is still jousting with the IRS to clear up what she calls...
...Tibetan ruler -- his senior tutor, his junior tutor, his mother and the elder brother who in youth was his only playmate -- have died. Yet this, like everything else, the Dalai Lama takes, in the deepest sense, philosophically. "Old friends pass away, new friends appear," he says with cheerful matter-of- factness. "It's just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful...
Chuck's information leaves Doug profoundly embarrassed and a little confused: "With all respect to the young man, it did not seem right that he would assume authority in this matter." Indeed, the effrontery rapidly escalates. Before long, Chuck is in Doug's bedroom demanding a signed blank check and displaying (accidentally?) a holstered revolver strapped around his ankle. Doug is shaken by this experience. "How's that for a Sunday at the shore?" he complains to his daughter-in-law. "You can get your head blown off for no reason, by a houseguest you don't even know...
...many of Swaggart's followers, though, the larger concern is what harm the past year of Gospelgate will do to his remarkable denomination. "We are ready to put this matter behind us," states the group's weary leader, G. Raymond Carlson. Understandably so. The double-barreled embarrassment involving Bakker and Swaggart, the Assemblies' two most visible evangelists, has unforgettably tarnished preparations for the denomination's 75th anniversary next year. But so far the damage has been controllable, testimony to the extraordinary vigor of the Assemblies...