Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FENCES In Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, August Wilson launched a cycle about black life in each decade of the century. His new work, mounted by the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Chicago and Seattle and scheduled for Broadway in March, depicts a baseball player turned sanitation worker in the 1950s. James Earl Jones has his most exciting role since The Great White Hope...
...Reserve Board approval. Paul Horvitz, a professor at the University of Houston, called the deals a "vote of confidence in the Texas economy." Still, their success is not assured. Said Mark Alpert, a banking analyst at Bear, Stearns, a New York City investment firm: "Nobody really knows where the bottom of the Texas slump might...
...been a revolutionary development for a company that once offered lifetime job security. Of the 27,400 jobs to be cut under the new plan, 10,900 are designated as management positions and 16,500 are nonmanagement jobs. "The pain will not be felt at just the bottom," Olson emphasized. "It will be painful all around." No division -- not even venerable Bell Laboratories -- will be spared. Since only about 30% to 40% of the employees targeted for termination have been informed, much of the work force remains in suspense...
...past eleven months, toy manufacturers have dangled fresh enticements - before small children, hoping for the greatest separation of them all: the parents from their wallets. More interested in the here-and-now bottom line than in fairy tales or the mythic wellsprings behind children's play, the marketers have long since phased out the elves in Santa's workshop (and kicked the old gentleman upstairs to his present role as the Colonel Sanders of the Yuletide franchise). Big business, after all, is not kid stuff; the other way round is more like it. In the U.S. last Christmas, according...
...Flatten the bottom half of your toothpaste tube--just like it says on the back of the box--so you get the maximum amount of paste per tube. After all, at nearly $1.50 a shot, toothpaste is really expensive. You wouldn't want to be wasteful, especially when there are children in Africa starving for extra toothpaste...