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Word: inns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1970s mean that there are fewer teenagers and college-age students available today to take on the tedious service-industry tasks of chopping vegetables for salad bars, flipping hamburgers or feeding insurance claims into a computer. Twelve years ago, when Bill and Sydna Zeliff bought their Christmas Farm Inn in Jackson, N.H., they could choose among six candidates for each opening. Now, says Sydna, "we hire almost anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Hands on Deck! | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...contact was a cousin, Herschel Bailey, 30, who knew Otis Wilson, 30, a clerk at the bank. Wilson introduced Taylor to Moore and by last month the group included Neal Jackson, 31, Leonard Strickland, 49, and Ronald Carson, 40. They plotted their scam at meetings in a Quality Inn on Chicago's west side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chairman and His Board | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...pump iron; two gorgeous sorceresses dust them off. Murder is in the air, and the kinetic poetry Godard can create from the way a woman's hair falls across her face. Julien Temple's witty episode -- quick gags and endless tracking shots -- plops Rigoletto into California's baroque Madonna Inn. A movie producer philanders in a room decorated in Late Neanderthal, while his wife dallies in Heidi's Hideaway, and an Elvis impersonator lip-syncs La donna e mobile. In another Western hotel, Tristan and Isolde execute a quickie marriage and a slow double suicide. Director Franc Roddam knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Opera for The Inoperative | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...real estate proposals made in the last year, most of them around the southwest part of the Square. The Coalition guidelines identified several projects as too dense or too high, including the replacement to the Club Casablanca building, a commercial-office complex slated to replace the Harvard Motor Inn, and the building to replace the Blue Parrot...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: University Plans to Block Rezoning for Square | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

...glorious, bright office with a log fire that cuts the late-winter chill. He looks out one tall window on the White House gardens, out another toward Alexander Hamilton in the splendor of bronze and new cherry buds. Pity the beasts of political burden in Peoria's Holiday Inn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What Friends Are For | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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