Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Birch's Belmont headquarters are quiet enough. There's a receptionist or two. The carpet has a dull, worm-out and lifeless look. McManus's cramped office is strewn with assorted books, papers, and memorabilia, and on the wall hangs a portrait of Marine General Chester Puller, a Korean War hero...
...same messages which used to mark American ads, saying in effect. "You're smart if you smoke" or "Smoking is good for your sex life," the World Health Organization magazines has reported. All of the important people, the ads imply, have ridden to a position authority on a magic carpet of smoke...
...town, which sprang up in the 1920s as a summer resort and later became a permanent working-class community, is now a picture of near desolation. A muddy brown film coats the small clapboard houses and trailer homes, many of which are ripped apart. Stoves and pieces of carpet sit in yards. Piles of trash and decaying food are heaped everywhere. Many of the 800 families are homeless...
Reatha Brown has been lobbying for a new carpet, but she is becoming resigned to the prospect that the family will acquire a new hard-disc drive instead. "The video-assette recorder," she sighs, pointing across the room, "that was my other carpet." Replies her husband, setting forth an argument that is likely to be replayed in millions of households in the years just ahead: "We make money with the computer, but all we can do with a new carpet is walk on it. Somebody once said there were five reasons to spend money: on necessities, on investments, on self...
...result, Warren-Sherman is beginning to hum. Twenty companies, doing everything from carpet installation to computer-parts assembly, have set up shop in the district. Some 500 new jobs have been created so far, and 1,500 more are projected by 1987. In October, Ohio designated Warren-Sherman as its first enterprise zone. That promises to reduce state and local taxes for some firms. The next step is a 23-acre industrial park, where Owens-Illinois is now building a plant that will make corrugated boxes...