Word: augustness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration estimates that firms with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 63.5% of all new employment between 1980 and 1986. Small firms have also contributed to the resurgence of U.S. manufacturing exports. In a study of more than 400 small high-tech concerns, the Bank of Boston reported in August that most such companies began to export their products almost as soon as they started operations...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Susan Lynd, Clementina Allured, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...
...been customary to write about New Orleans as a foreign city. The tropics are often mentioned, particularly if the writer has had the bad luck to arrive in August: steamy, sensuous, tempting, vaguely dangerous. Some have dwelt on New Orleans' French origins, some on its Latin flair for celebration. It has been described as Mediterranean and Levantine. In 1960, when I first started writing about New Orleans, I told a man I knew there -- a wise man, who had spent his whole life in New Orleans, taking in the show -- that some of the goings-on connected with the desegregation...
Folklore has it that August is the time when all the shrinks go on vacation, leaving behind heat, humidity and the miasma of anxiety surrounding their patients. What are these abandoned psyches supposed to do for a whole month? This summer offers them a new option. They might pick up a copy of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's Against Therapy, turn to the preface and read the following: "This is a book about why I believe psychotherapy, of any kind, is wrong. Although I criticize many individual therapists and therapies, my main objective is to point out that the very idea...
...were transfixed last week when the second Monday of this month produced the rhythmic four-digit 8-8-88. Gamblers bet on the numeral, and some came up lucky, albeit a little bit late. Three straight eights topped the New York State lottery on -- sorry -- the ninth day of August, and 10,000 bettors who kept the faith for 24 hours will divide $6 million...