Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost her husband to cancer, a Scientologist turned up at her Los Angeles home peddling a $1,300 auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last June, Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult members to show up at her door unannounced with an E-meter to interrogate her. Baker never got the money and, financially...
...consideration of admitting women to the Fly Club comes in the wake of a recent decision by Yale's Skull and Bones society to "tap" women for entry into that club for the first time ever...
Sokolof, born in Omaha in 1922, has always enjoyed center stage. Starting tap-dance lessons at age six, he soon won first prize at a children's talent show. He still recalls the drill. "Left, right, shuffle, shuffle, tap, tap," he says, his body swaying with the remembered rhythm. At nine, he made the first of his many career changes, taking voice lessons and singing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. After high school, he took to the road for four years as a vocalist with a succession of bands, performing in ballrooms and nightclubs across the country...
...felt betrayed by Arabs who didn't come to their side. But eight years of war with Iran brought nothing comparable to the misery that Iraqis are experiencing now. Gasoline is rarely available, and when it is, the lines are 400 cars long. Baghdad residents have had no tap water or electricity for more than a month. Sewage systems overflowing with garbage are creating a health hazard. Surgical operations at hospitals have been conducted by candlelight without morphine. Food is still available, but prices have soared...
...could be an elusive goal. Americans are constantly exposed to lead, particularly from old, crumbling paint. The dense metal escapes into the air when used in industrial processes and can leach out of crystal glassware and imported pottery into food and drink. Lead solder in old plumbing often contaminates tap water. Government regulations have phased out most leaded gasolines, but the residue from the exhausts of millions of vehicles in years gone by still poisons the soil near major highways. And though lead-based paints were banned for most uses in 1977, a 1988 Public Health Service report revealed that...