Word: linings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bunker, the trip to Bally's Park Place on a recent Wednesday is a welcome -- and cheap -- respite from arthritis, television and the addicts and prostitutes on her midtown Manhattan block. "I even forget my name," she says. The trip actually costs nothing: in exchange for her $18 Gray Line ticket, the casino refunds $15 in coins plus a $5 coupon off on the next trip...
...John may find that Atlantic City does not easily release its grip. History and geography have bestowed on the city a curious destiny as a metaphysical place on the edge of ordinary life. "It's the end of the railroad line. It's the end of the bus line. It's the end of the airline. It's the end of the expressway," says Barry Durman, the mission's director. "Once you get here, where...
Airline executives hope to escape any heavy-handed Government interference in the buying and selling of carriers. But they will first have to allay growing fears that the excess baggage of buyout loans may not be good for air travelers. "Safety is the bottom line, and we know how to achieve it," says Benjamin Cosgrove, a Boeing senior vice president. "The need is for mechanics and inspectors with a real desire for safety." But if the airlines seem unwilling or unable to deliver the level of assurance that passengers want, politicians will rush to do it for them...
...veteran Politburo members Egon Krenz, 52, and Gunter Mittag, 62, who have been filling in for him at public ceremonies, are at least as conservative. The rise of either of them to the top job would mean no change from the present course. "They are signaling that the old line is the right line for the future," says Fred Oldenburg, senior analyst at the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne...
...trying to cope with a sour national mood that is turning bitter amid steadily worsening shortages of meat, sugar, butter, salt, matches, soap and even warm winter clothing. Now tea, a beverage the Soviets consume in vast quantities, has suddenly disappeared from store shelves. Said a woman standing in line for lemons in Moscow: "They talk about the years of stagnation ((Gorbachev's term for the Brezhnev era)), but at least while we stagnated...