Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are, quite obviously, well scrubbed and well off; young white men and women in suits and dresses and polished loafers and fashionable pumps. They stand silently at scattered street corners in cities like Dallas and Orlando and now Chicago. With their small, multicolored signs -- TSONGAS -- they seem a diffident rebuke to the well-oiled effort supporting Bill Clinton. "How can they compete?" asked a Clinton worker as he drove around Chicago last week. "We've got the money and endorsements. Damn, there's another one. You don't think they're having any real effect...
...rape proceeding against William Kennedy Smith, which produced TIME's "Date Rape" cover story, and the drug case starring fallen Panama strongman Manuel Noriega. She is thinking of more than climate when she boasts, "Miami is the hottest assignment around." Outside the courtrooms, Booth reported a cover story on Orlando and finagled 1992's great correspondent coup, a Business lead story on the booming cruise industry. Naturally, duty required Cathy to sample a Bahamas cruise. The bureau also covers the Caribbean, and she has reported from troubled Haiti and Castro's crumbling Cuba...
...funny thing happened to the middle class, meaning, roughly, those who inhabit the middle of the income-distribution curve. If a middle-class life-style is defined by home ownership, vacations in Orlando and college for the kids, then a middle-size income was shrinking to the level of an inadequate pittance. While the price of housing and tuition went shooting through the roof, the median household income remained stuck where it has been ever since the late '70s, at about $30,000 a year. The curious result being that if you want to be middle class...
...activities create an atmosphere at odds, in our view, both with the purposes of the University and with what is best in the Christian tradition. And so we urge Concerned Christians to reconsider their tactics and reenter into compassionate dialogue. K.A. Appiah Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Martin L. Kilson Orlando Patterson...
...been sighted in a Frederick, Md., JCPenney store buying socks and recorded in New Hampshire's political precincts slanging from the stump about frogs without wings and liberals jumping on an unspecified part of his anatomy. Last week he uncovered a cache of supermarket checkout gear at the Orlando convention of the National Grocers Association. The pampered and protected President was dazzled. Supermarket habitues have been using the stuff for more than a decade...