Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those notions I'd stored in the back of my mind for a long time, a notion that refused to die. It drove me to pull $200 from my BayBanks account. It drove me blatantly to disregard the thought of four Monday classes. And it drove me to catch a cab into Kenmore Square...
...rebound began almost five years ago, when stores specializing in classic and current comics started to sprout in shopping centers. Today there are about 4,000 such dealers, who account for 50% of U.S. comic-book sales. As always, success has inspired imitators. B. Dalton and Waldenbooks have begun carrying comics in most of their 1,753 bookstores. Supermarkets, which account for about 35% of magazine sales, still resist the trend, on the ground that comic books attract loitering youths. Nonetheless, the Waldbaum, Pathmark and Safeway chains have decided that Archie Comics are clean-cut enough to be displayed...
...labor market: the temp professional. In growing numbers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, computer experts and college professors willing to punch in and out for up to $150 an hour are being snapped up by firms and institutions eager for their services but only for a while. Professionals now account for an estimated 11% of the 800,000 Americans who work each day in temporary positions. The top-drawer temps, whose numbers are increasing about 10% a year, are profoundly changing the $6 billion temporary-service industry...
...future President's courtship of his wife Patricia is detailed in Julie Nixon Eisenhower's sympathetic account of the trials and triumphs of the family Nixon as seen through her mother's eyes. Pat Nixon: The Untold Story, to be published in November by Simon & Schuster, portrays the former First Lady as an intensely private woman from whom the entire family, particularly her husband, drew strength...
While recovering from a debilitating stroke -- suffered in part, says Julie, because her mother read Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Nixon's fight for his presidency, The Final Days -- Pat Nixon was resting on the patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more...