Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fraud suit in California to recover more than $407,000 lost in four keh organized by Soon Duk Cabling. Court documents show that Cabling partly financed several small businesses in San Francisco with money from the keh. When her stores started losing money and word of her financial problems spread, the loan clubs disintegrated. If the court decides to protect the keh deposits by ordering Cabling to pay up, the case, which is expected to come to trial later this summer, could set an important precedent...
Hank Williams Jr. has a roarer going on over at a big spread near Nashville. It's really a video event, fired up just so there could be a raucous, celebrity-studded promo for Hank's hit tune, All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming over Tonight. And there it is, a real booze-and-barbecue bash, with lots of huggy-bunny country gals sashaying all around folks who dropped in, sometimes via limo, to pay old Hank Jr. their respects. There's Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Hank Jr. sings his song, roaming all around the large...
...goes to Cardenas. A former P.R.I. governor, he was expelled from the party last fall after he challenged the process of selecting the presidential candidate. Embraced by four leftist parties, Cardenas, 54, the son of a revered former President, began touring the countryside in a donated van. As he spread his heavily nationalist message ) and hinted that he favored suspending interest payments on Mexico's $103 billion foreign debt, peasants, students, intellectuals and members of the middle class rallied to his banner...
...recent years, particularly in the South and West, Hispanic decorating styles have spread from ethnic enclave to city center to suburb. Design and architecture magazines and chic boutiques are full of the terra-cotta pots, vivid woven rugs and ceramic tiles of the Santa Fe style, and homebuilders around the country are busy slapping stucco onto plywood and chicken wire to satisfy a growing yen for adobe homes. At the same time, more public buildings are being constructed in a modern flourish on the Old World style of Spain, with arched porticoes, wide, shady courtyards and bubbling fountains. "I like...
...three weeks ago. By going ahead with the ceremony, Lefebvre sought to perpetuate his 100,000-member renegade movement, since his newly consecrated bishops can in turn ordain their own priests. Dismissing his excommunication, the Archbishop declared, "I am a bishop of the Catholic Church who will continue to spread the faith...