Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economies are so robust, of course. Unemployment in West Virginia stands at 9.7%, largely because of a loss of jobs in the coal industry and manufacturing. In Kentucky the rate is 8.6%. Yet almost everywhere, summer travel has brought a labor crunch in the resort and recreation industries. Dishwashers, floor sweepers and busboys have become as rare as teenagers in summer school. Says Cheryl Winters, manager of the Gwinnett County office of the Georgia department of labor: "There are essentially no domestic workers. They have gone with the wind." The situation . is not expected to improve over last year, when...
...become the visual star of the Windy Cityscape. Deciding that the structure would be a good backdrop for his latest creation, titled Bess' Sunrise, Textile Artist Maya Romanoff adorned the building with 28 brightly colored canvas strips, each 6 ft. wide and 120 ft. long. Suspended from the seventh-floor terrace and hanging down to the edge of the Chicago River, the work offers a billowing spectacle of warm yellow-oranges and radiant blue- greens...
...exchanges, at which the simultaneous program trading of stocks in New York City and index futures in Chicago can create fearsome volatility, agreed to impose restrictions when prices begin falling out of control. One safeguard will be a "shock absorber," a half an hour price floor that will go into effect on the Standard & Poor's 500 index whenever it drops on the Merc by the equivalent of about 96 points on the Dow Jones average. Under even more stormy conditions, if the Dow drops 250 points, a "circuit breaker" would halt trading for one hour on both...
...budget-busting programs been separated by so little punctuation. Dukakis is the apostle of "targeted economic development," while Jackson has . stressed creating public service jobs to rebuild America's "infrastructure." The platform neglects to explain how "fiscal responsibility" might be achieved. But Jackson is likely to wage a convention floor fight on this point to insert a pledge to raise the taxes of the wealthy. Dukakis' likely response: "Go ahead, make...
...middle of the night. While most of Miami is sleeping, Casanovas, the area's most electric disco, has just received its wake-up call. Attractive young women teeter across the dance floor in vertiginous high heels, their hourglass figures accentuated by off-the-shoulder Lycra tops and tight leather micromini-skirts. Handsome, heavily cologned men in open-neck shirts keep the ladies under close observation, hoping to spot the sideways glance and quick nod that signify a turn on the floor...