Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tulsa, Oklahoma...
...Beach Gardens, Fla., boasts that sales of high-quality mallets and sets have doubled in the past three years, while the number of croquet clubs has grown from five in 1977 to over 300 this year. More people are buying backyard sets, and public courts are springing up in Tulsa, Phoenix and Rockford, Ill. The final round of the New York Championship Croquet Tournament was played on June 17 at public courts in Manhattan's Central Park before a hushed crowd...
...looked to be evangelist Oral Roberts, whose career has had more ups and downs than the water slide at the now defunct theme park. It has been mostly downs since he launched his desperate give-millions-lest-I-die fund-raising drive in 1987. In the past year the Tulsa televangelist has laid off 10% of his staff and folded his cherished City of Faith hospital and medical school. In search of a more promising venture, Roberts decided to take a bold gamble and offer $6.5 million to obtain PTL's cable-TV operation, now known as the Inspirational Network...
...teachers noticed," says vice principal Ilene Black, "was the change in attitude of the students. The parents are very positive; they love the fact that their children like it; they don't have to make them do their homework." John Aston, headmaster at the Undercroft Montessori School in Tulsa marvels that "some of our students are already performing at a masterful level" after less than one year...
Placing defense attorneys in an adversarial relationship with their clients over the origin of funds raises serious concerns. Warns Tulsa lawyer Allen Smallwood: "If I'm subject to spilling my guts about my client's secrets every time the U.S. Attorney taps me on the shoulder, it drives a wedge between me and my client." It drives a wedge, say many legal experts, that cracks a big hole in both the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the attorney-client privilege of confidentiality...