Word: patterns
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Several of the corporate deaths indeed seem to fit that pattern. A partial listing of recent victims...
Despite the many hovering suspicions and accusations, none of the major organizations, including the renovated PTL, are currently caught in any scandal. But TIME's examination revealed a continuing pattern. In case after case, the basic management problem that gave birth to the PTL scandal was glaringly evident in other evangelical organizations: a lack of effective accountability...
Some of the Bakkers' excesses have been well documented. Among them: six luxurious homes, complete with gold-plated bathroom fixtures and, famously, Tammy's air-conditioned doghouse. But behind those well-publicized items, a broader pattern of plundering PTL's treasury has emerged. According to the Falwell loyalists who are currently in charge at PTL, in the Bakkers' last 16 months in power, more than $2.4 million was paid out of a single confidential executive checking account handled by the Charlotte office of Laventhol & Horwath, PTL's auditors. Almost $1.4 million in compensation went to the Bakkers and top executives...
...least according to Poindexter's testimony. Yet now that most of the evidence is in, the more basic questions about responsibility have become even more troubling. The Iranian arms deals and covert contra supply operations, dubious enough on their own, were part of a larger, even more insidious pattern: the establishment of a runaway foreign policy that relied on lies and deceptions to function outside the rule of law. Could the buck for such an apparatus really have stopped with John Poindexter...
...following orders to the letter. Indeed, one commanding officer characterized Poindexter as "totally loyal and trustworthy, and a thorough briefer who rarely interjected his own viewpoints." But as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser from December 1985 to November 1986, Poindexter told his questioners last week, he broke that pattern. In February 1986, after just two months on the job, he decided to usurp the authority of his Commander in Chief...