Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called a keh-ju in Korean or a chu-hui in Vietnamese. She covers any defaults. As compensation, the first pool is traditionally hers; in a bidding club, she receives it interest-free. Even so, the organizer benefits from strong community ties. When a new Chinese immigrant asks to join a hui, for example, "it does not take much effort to establish his life history," says Tom Tai, director of the Chinese Business Association in Queens, N.Y. As a result, notes Chicago's Engstrom, the vast majority of loan clubs prove quite solid. Says he: "No one wants to risk...
...effective tool. Emotional binges are like staying up all night -- they throw one's schedule off. Vote, if that will do it; argue, if you have to; and if votes and arguments will not (yet) avail, then do not waste time lamenting. On the busing issue, he refused to join either camp, suggesting there must be a third position that would serve to end discussion, not continue...
...Wartrace, Tenn., he grabs his guitar and starts lip- syncing the words to I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried. He stops what little traffic there is. Drivers and passengers, none of them recognizable to anyone but their neighbors, climb out of cars, pickups and delivery trucks to join in the song. They all smile, mostly at one another, and dance around...
Before the tears, here are some icy numbers from the Centers for Disease Control. Of the 65,780 cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome reported in the U.S. since June 1981, 37,195 are now filed under Deceased. The rest seem likely to join them unless a magic bullet is discovered soon. Researchers are pessimistic...
...saved his real shockers for Cabinet colleagues. When an old friend, Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland, was fired by Meese, Bennett declared bluntly, "Terry Eastland's an excellent man. He can join me at the department any time...