Word: dente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December if wage increases are limited, as the government seeks, to 3.5% during 1983. That will be tough, said Giersch, since militant trade unions are already demanding salary hikes of about 7.5%. The government's recent efforts to stimulate the housing industry are not expected to make any dent in unemployment, now at 7.8% of the work force. Joblessness is likely to grow to 9.5% by the end of next year, said Giersch...
...invasion of Japanese video recorders. This year alone, 550,000 (85% of total sales) were sold, an influx authorities fear could cripple France's own fledgling video recorder industry and deepen its projected $14 billion foreign trade deficit. When hefty new $65 annual licensing fees failed to dent demand, the government turned to obstructionism. Henceforth, decreed the French government, every Japanese recorder would have to clear a tiny ten-man customhouse in landlocked Poitiers...
...minded youths would speed nights riding the New York subways, protecting the elderly, giving directions to lost people, and excorting citizens out of potentially dangerous encounters with muggers. Occasionally, they might even catch a purse-snatcher or burglar in the act. As time passed, the Angels made no significant dent in crime rates, but they did show the almost-forgotten power of citizens who care about each other. The Angels were a modern, urban version of the Boy Scouts who helped little old ladies through subways instead of across the street...
...that makes Douglas Adams' new book all the more welcome. Life, the Universe and Everything (Harmony; $9.95) is like nothing ever published before except, perhaps, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also written by Douglas Adams. Once again the protagonist is a reluctant wanderer named Arthur Dent; once again his intergalactic guide is an extraterrestrial named Ford Prefect. Vooming around the void accompanied by a two-headed, three-armed creature who once controlled the universe and a sexy space cadet, Dent manages to avert Armageddon and save the world for life as we never knew it. Adams...
McNamara's soulmate, Walpole businessman Ray Shamie, used almost $1 million of his own income to battle Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and he failed to make a dent in the presidential aspirant's popularity. Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) lost the seat she has held for eight terms. In the state legislature, Democrats added to their already lopsided majorities in both houses. They now control the House 131 to 29 and the Senate...