Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would act in due time. Recalled Thomas: "He said that a baseball game has nine innings and we were in the seventh." Subsequently, club members could not reach Goode, and police ignored their complaints. Fed up at last, the club called a press conference to ventilate complaints and add to the pressure on the city. When the confrontation came, the club was on the verge of filing a suit to force action...
...trekkers do not even glance at window displays. "Looking distracts you," contends Hazel Yarbrough, 74, who clips along for five to seven miles a day at a zippy 140 steps a minute in the Georgia Square Mall in Athens. Regular strollers look out for mischief, pick up refuse and add a general air of bonhomie to the malls as they exchange pleasantries in passing. Indeed, the loose camaraderie has proved a welcome dividend for many of the walkers. Maude Harris, 74, used to laugh at the Georgia Square strollers. "It looked pretty silly to me," she recalls. But needing...
...People like the relaxing harp music and the elegance of the brass tea trolleys. You often see papers and memos out on the tables." "It's a very graceful way to do business," says John Strauss, manager of San Francisco's elegant Four Seasons Clift Hotel. "Some of them add a glass of wine to the service. It's a kind of 'California...
Some businessmen also dispute Weitzman's reasoning. They argue that companies cannot add employees unless demand for their products increases. "Weitzman has a utopian idea," says Kevin O'Donnell, president of SIFCO Industries, a metalworking firm based in Cleveland. Many economists praise the theoretical elegance of Weitzman's plan, but doubt that it could be put into practice any time soon, if at all. Says David Glasner, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: "Workers simply prefer having a known wage rate and do not want to take the risk of a variable income." Contends Melvin Reder...
...governments have made it a top priority. Washington Mayor Marion Barry last month guaranteed a summer job to every 14- to 18-year-old who wants one. The District of Columbia, which expects to employ 23,000 youths this season, up about 9% from last year, will have to add another $1 million to its $6 million summer-jobs budget in order to fulfill the mayor's pledge. In Chicago, youngsters lined up by the thousands last week as officials began taking applications for 23,600 summer jobs the city will offer. An estimated 200,000 disadvantaged Chicago youths, however...