Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FOUR CHARACTERS are refuse from society--unwanted and lonely Mr. Sloan (Mike Samols) enters the sheltered lives of Kath, a middle-aged woman: her crotchety old father Kemp and her effeminate brother Ed. Kath and her father live in a tenement that borders on a dump, and emotionally their lives are steeped in trash and decay as well. The play delves into the complex lover's triangle that develops between Sloan, Kath--who becomes his land-lady and Ed who becomes his employer. To round off the plot, Kemp is the only witness who can prove that Sloan murdered...
...Europe, they simply tap out a telephone number and leave a message in an electronic "voice mailbox," a kind of computerized answering service. Later the traveling employees can listen at their convenience. Says Executive Vice President Brice Schuller: "Most of us are usually on the go, so we just dump a message into a guy's phone mailbox and he can step into any phone booth...
...their ancestors could not have dreamed of. Danish welfare, a money system and processed foods have badly stretched the bonds that give a hunting society its cohesiveness and strength. Eating no longer requires special skills or cunning, even for the foxes who gorge themselves at the Thule airbase garbage dump...
...from 330 theater parties that have signed up for special blocks of seats. The show cost a princely $4 million or so to mount. It cost $2.5 million to strip-mine the interior and stage of the Winter Garden Theater and construct a cats' Valhalla of a nocturnal dump. Cost of restoration when Cats eventually vacates: an additional $1.5 million...
...collapsed because of speculation run amuck. In the late 1970s, dealers in Tel Aviv, one of the world's diamond-cutting centers, began buying bushels of stones on credit after the government subsidized interest rates at 6%. At the same time, global inflation was causing investors to dump paper assets like currency and stock, and buy tangible goods, particularly gold, real estate and gems. The cost of an investment-grade D-flawless diamond, which had risen from $1,250 in 1967 to $7,000 in 1976, suddenly soared. By early 1980, the price had reached an unsustainable...