Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children. Laws in every state require teachers, nurses and other professionals to report any suspicion of sexual abuse, with penalties for failing to do so. Also judges are increasingly less willing to assign children automatically to mothers. The result: some wives use false accusations as a weapon of last resort...
...board hired new auditors and ordered a full review of compensation. The Bakkers apparently will no longer have use of the residence provided by PTL, but they own two comfortable homes elsewhere. PTL is expected to unload the lakefront home near Fort Mill where Dortch lives, along with five resort properties and assorted boats and luxury cars...
...speculation about human motives and mixes subjective evaluation with fact. A political scientist, for example, cannot prove mathematically that Hitler's political regime was an inevitable consequence of Germany's post-World War I disarray, but he can make a pretty good case. Nevertheless, claim hard-liners, softies often resort to equations and logarithmic curves to try to prove such points, thereby not only confusing their own issues but also traducing the methods of pure science...
Part of Stellenbosch's appeal comes from its isolation. The 14,000 students usually dress as if they were attending classes at a seaside resort: men in shorts or jeans and running shoes, women in white or pastel-colored blouses and slacks. They stroll hand in hand with bookbags over their shoulders, loll on the steps of lecture halls, hop into their cars for a trip to one of the 47 restaurants catering to Maties, the nickname for U. of S. students that had its origin in the tomato-color blazers students used to wear. The Maties have long been...
...wife whom he left but who will not give him a divorce is pestering him for support payments. Worse, a shyster doctor has talked him into squandering his piddling savings on the commodities market. "What's the matter?" asks his father, to whom he turns as a last resort. "Everything," Tommy replies. "Just everything...