Word: depotism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play focuses on two groups in a segregated waiting area of Savannah's train depot. On one bench sit The Marshalls, a stiff and respectable Black family--Mother (Erika Dilday), Father (Mark Awobuluyi) and teenage daughter Bridget (Elizabeth Wint). Two lower-class "white boys," Jackie Saunders (Steve Barr) and Benny Jones (Scott Chavez), eye them from across the bare stage, whispering and wondering "what it's like to live like them...
...modern training lexicon are the physical brutality and psychological abuse that once made camps like Parris Island, S.C., seem the American counterpart of Devil's Island. Boot camp is still rigorous, and some drills involve live ammunition; 37 enlistees have died during training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego since 1970. But Marine regulations adopted in 1976 forbid drill instructors from touching recruits except to correct their position during instruction or to prevent injury. Punitive push- ups are now limited to just five minutes, with a 30-second break midway. Mental harassment is frowned upon...
...Recently, 80% of those surveyed in a Gallup poll believed that the charges of "shady dealings" and "corruption" applied to "many" City companies. "I always felt there are bigger rogues at the top than there are at the bottom," says George Payne, a foreman at British Road Services' Oxford depot. "So this is no surprise...
Kingsport, Tenn., rookie ball in the Appalachian League, is a typical first professional depot on the tour to the majors--"a one-mall town," as described by Gooden in the modern tongue. Youmans recalls, "The night I walked in, he was waiting for me. We just hugged and cried." The team's transportation around the mountains was a bus, of course, but for some reason the two friends found it endlessly funny that it was a school bus (no air conditioner). Every day Dwight called home. "Sometimes twice a day," Dan Gooden says. "One month we had a $460 phone...
...Philippines. The deep natural harbor at Subic Bay, 50 miles northwest of Manila on the South China Sea, is the primary support and logistics base for the U.S. Seventh Fleet's 80 ships and 550 aircraft. Four floating dry docks can accommodate surface craft or submarines. Its supply depot is the Navy's largest, and its magazine holds 3.8 million cu. ft. of ammunition. Some 4,500 Filipino technicians keep 70 ships a month in good repair. The workers earn a typical salary of $1.80 an hour, one-seventh the amount in U.S. shipyards...