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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks in part to the increased number of female business travelers and the lobbying efforts of the BWTC, the complaints are being heard. To attract female guests, several hotel chains have introduced new features -- some quaint, some useless, but many very welcome. Crest Hotels now offers "Lady Crest" rooms. The redesigned suites are more softly decorated than regular executive rooms, and come equipped with hair dryers, makeup mirrors, women's magazines, skirt hangers, irons and ironing boards, and an expanded range of bathroom toiletries. Similarly, Ramada takes care to assign women to specially outfitted rooms in well-lighted areas...
...only thing booming in Detroit these days is the number of houses being abandoned. With a population of 1,086,220, the city has lost 800,000 people since the 1950s, and is scarred by 12,000 or more empty buildings. Every year about 2,000 additional structures are abandoned to rats, crack dealers, vagrants and vandals. In July three angry residents of Grayfield Street in northwest Detroit, fed up with the eyesores on their block, took matters into their own hands. With sledgehammers and axes they hacked down two abandoned, vermin-infested buildings...
...then a scuffle broke out on Chatham Street, after house busters blocked the road with debris from the makeshift crack house and brothel they tore down. The Motor City demolition derby has now resulted in five arrests for wrecking without a permit -- and a healthy increase in the number of houses the city is clearing away...
Affluent parents who worry about the threat of kidnaping or sexual abuse by the babysitter are discovering that a graver danger to their children may be lurking in their own backyards. So far this year, twelve Phoenix youngsters under age 5 have drowned in residential swimming pools, twice the number for all of 1988. With 22 deaths of young children, Arizona is the No. 1 state in child drownings...
Barker is a 40ish Harvard professor who has become a brilliant force in the world of psychology. Nurtured by the top psychologist in the department since his graduate school days, Barker follows in his mentor's footsteps by discarding Freud's psychoanalytic theories in favor of a number-crunching, laboratorystudy approach to psychology...