Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miniature gold anchor. As the chorus breaks into "Anchored in Jesus," the camera pans over the Homes and Gardens living room set and shows an audience landscaped in suede and polyester. Happy people stare attentively into space as the hymn, a tune of dental office piety alloyed to the metal harmonies of Muzak, bounces off the upholstery. They come to hear Jim's message, "You can make it too," and to have God heal their ills Bakker grasps a sheaf of prayer requests, closes his Teddy bear eyes, and allows a tear to trickle down his cheek: "And tumors...
Protection Service, with metal detectors, check people in a gathering who come near the President. When Reagan flew to Cancun in Mexico for the North-South summit conference last October, a ship full of Marines stood by beyond the horizon in case he might need rescue. On the Barbados trip, as ever, the President was accompanied by two doctors and four other medical personnel, while a fully equipped hospital ship floated offshore...
...style is not much grander than that of most recent Chief Executives, and some of the elephantiasis is not his doing. The press corps traveling with the President has about doubled in size in the past 20 years. Security has been beefed up under Reagan: the men with metal detectors are new, and the Reagan White House ordered armored cars, which the Carter Administration declined to buy. Some White House aides believe security has become excessive, but after the attempt on Reagan's life, no one is about to propose a cutback. Aides see little room for economy...
...demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras at the President "or the guards might open fire...
...Soviet economic outlook, though, continues to deteriorate. Last week Moscow officials indicated that the disastrous 1981 grain harvest had been worse than previously thought. The setback may force the Soviet Union to increase gold sales to raise cash. The Soviets have already sold roughly 300 tons of the metal to obtain about $3.5 billion. The Kremlin is using the proceeds to pay for food and other imports, and to aid its satellite countries. Meanwhile, Western moneymen, who used to help the Communist world get out of such economic troubles, are on an extended bank holiday...