Word: opened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat is this: the schools, perhaps believing that they are acting for one institution--"American higher education"--may be bilking the public and their own staffs, faculty and students by not aggressively keeping costs down and arranging salaries, housing costs and other fees in the open market...
...clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw: "We've built a following of regular customers who don't even go into chain stores." Stuart Brent, 70, whose Chicago store has been a bastion of intellectual taste for about 40 years, says, "You have people ((those who run chain stores...
...reluctant laureate was honored for pathbreaking work in the early 1940s that laid the foundation for econometrics, which uses mathematical models to study the behavior of an economy. "Every time you open a newspaper and see an analysis of economic trends," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the economics- prize committee, "it is based on Haavelmo's econometric theories." Haavelmo's key contribution was to show that the relationship between such factors as income and spending was far more complex than had been thought, since those factors affect one another and the rest of the economy. For example, he demonstrated that...
About a dozen large open-pit gold mines using such techniques are now strung out along the Carlin Trend. The Dee. Maggie Creek. Gold Quarry. Goldstrike. Blue Star. The Rain. The Bootstrap. American Barrick Resources Corp., a Canadian company, recently announced plans to excavate a billion tons of rock to get at 12 million oz. of gold -- worth about $4.4 billion at current prices. In the process, the mine will bequeath to posterity a hole 1,500 ft. deep, 4,000 ft. wide and 7,000 ft. long...
...many cases, the gold mines are located in remote, desolate regions. But some impinge on popular campsites, and one, ominous as a shark with wide-open jaws, is poised right on the edge of the tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that...