Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated $1 billion in District of Columbia property, including part ownership of the famed Watergate complex. Esteemed U.S. corporate nameplates are also changing citizenship at a rapid clip. Doubleday books has gone to the West Germans, Brooks Brothers clothiers to the Canadians, Smith + & Wesson handguns to the British, Chesebrough-Pond's consumer products to a Dutch-British combine. General Electric television sets have been bought by the French, Carnation foods by the Swiss, General tires by the West Germans...
...past month digging into the finances and organization of Jim Bakker's Praise the Lord and other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the famous faith healer, his pants rolled up, knee-deep in a medium-size artificial pond, where he was anointing 200 of the faithful. Recalls Dolan: "That scene gave me an insight into the impact of these television preachers on their followers...
...highly touted San Diego megacounty, and I left because I disliked the air, noise, traffic, crime and stress of living with 2.2 million other people. I moved to a town of about 300 residents, where I live on 67 acres of land, which includes a barn and a pond teeming with bass and bluegill. To the person who claims life in Southern California is "like being on vacation except you get to live here," I say small-town life is better yet: like being retired, except you get to go to work...
Howard Fields, 39, is making an outlandish splash in business. Three years ago, the Sausalito, Calif., entrepreneur plunged into the world of exotic- swimming-pool and -pond design. Now he is a leading creator of aquatic fantasies, with about 200 projects to his credit. Among them: a $3 million pool masquerading as a river that flows for the equivalent of six city blocks at a Puerto Rican resort. At Washington's Grand Hyatt Hotel, Fields is working on a $1 million, 3,000-sq.-ft. lake that will feature hundreds of live koi fish, 100-ft. waterfalls and a piano...
There is a big pond on the infield of the Pompano Harness Track, and that is where Steinbrenner threatened to "dump the little guinea bastard," as he referred to Cassini, if the designer dared get in his way during the race. Steinbrenner was miffed because Cassini, who was once Jacqueline Kennedy's White House couturier, had been given the favored, inside rail position to start that race, probably in deference to his age. Cassini is 73 years old. He is a charming little man who looks like he weighs about 110 lbs., and who has aged gracefully...