Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attitude. While airline personnel commit untold acts of kindness, the pressure of more work for relatively less pay is telling. After her flight was delayed for 7 1/2 hours (five of which passengers were held on board), a publicist from Orlando, Florida, was particularly irritated by the hostile attitude of the crew. "When you travel, you have to roll with it," she says. "But they were miserable, so they were going to make everyone miserable." Mission accomplished...
LAUREN CHAPIN, 51 ; ORLANDO, FLORIDA, Former child actress...
...paying fat premiums to do so. Skilled workers from carpenters to croupiers are in high demand as the good times have brought booms--and frequent overcrowding--to housing markets and entertainment centers from the casinos of Las Vegas and, yes, St. Louis, Missouri, to the theme parks of Orlando...
...OPULENT ORLANDO...
Central Florida is hot. With Orlando--one of the world's top tourist spots--at its heart, the region expects to add more than 232,000 jobs (an increase of 28%) in fields as diverse as software, optics and leisure by 2005. Even with 500 newcomers arriving each day, "there is a job here for everyone who wants one," says Dan Lynch, president and ceo of the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida. Even the marquee of Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando sports a help-wanted sign--for a hall monitor...