Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incantation of the federalism theme is no more tasteful when it emanates from the left side of the aisle. The debate over the Shoreham and Seabrook nuclear plants hinged on one's thoughts about nuclear energy. Is it fundamentally vital to national safety, or is it fundamentally dangerous...
...Praise the Lord or People That Love) ministry were confronted at a public bankruptcy hearing by members of the flock that had supported the $203 million religious empire created by its ousted leaders, Jim and Tammy Bakker. The officials struggled to assure PTL donors that the foundering television- and-theme-park ministry, now about $68 million in debt, might soon turn a profit. Asserted the new PTL chief operating officer, Harry Hargrave: "We will be able to pay our debts. We are very confident of that...
Aside from his cash flow, one urgent problem facing Falwell is what to do about the claims of 120,000 PTL "Lifetime Partners" who each gave at least $1,000 to the organization, with the promise of free lodging for three nights a year at the ministry's theme-park hotel. The organization, though, has little hope of fulfilling those pledges because the number of donors exceeds the number of hotel rooms available by 5 to 1. Falwell noted last week that if the court declares those donations, which total $180 million, as debt, PTL will have to close down...
...struggle for control at PTL continues is that the stakes, even in bankruptcy, are considerable. For all its financial woes, PTL remains a glittering prize, with its daily TV show, its all-day religious cable service transmitted to 13 million homes, and the splashy, 2,300-acre Heritage USA theme park, the ministry's entertainment centerpiece. PTL's Hargrave denied at the bankruptcy meeting that Falwell had usurped PTL's 518,000-donor mailing list and that checks made out to PTL had gone to the Lynchburg ministry. Bakker loyalists remain unconvinced. Said Robert Zanesky, the lawyer for a group...
Unlike Oliver North, Admiral Poindexter took the spear of responsibility in his own chest. But through the testimony of both was threaded a common theme: their goal was to cast a shroud of deniability around their activities...