Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear why the state of Kentucky believed it was the responsibility of taxpayers to improve GE's profit margins. Nevertheless, in 1993, Kentucky granted $19 million in income tax breaks over 10 years to the washing-machine factory in GE's sprawling Appliance Park complex. The city of Louisville and Jefferson County kicked in an additional $1 million...
...break notwithstanding, employment in Appliance Park continues to fall. Last February, GE announced that over the next two years, 1,500 jobs would be eliminated as range and dryer production is phased out and moved to Georgia, where wages are lower, and Mexico, where wages are much lower. Today 6,200 people work in Appliance Park--down 72% from a high...
...Thursday night at Kyle's House, and some ghostly creep with a blue face and wild white hair has come between a clan v.p. and a cute blond. The PuNK pOsSe group is hanging out on South Park Avenue; the No Limit guys are at Cartman's House. A naked Def Squad girl cruises Avatar Ranch. An anonymous admirer makes flowers bloom at the feet of Pink Glove in Wendy's Backyard. Oh, and the Mona Lisa head in the blinking, multicolored Apple baseball cap who's floating from room to room taking this all in? That would...
...does anything else you, or anyone else in the room, may have to say. A typical night will find upwards of 300 people scattered throughout the most popular palaces, which include South Park, Korn Korner and the original Palace Gate. "We add at least two new rooms every episode," says Tod Foley, who designed and runs South Park for Comedy Central. "Sometimes we go nuts and add six or seven. We look at it like a big online Renaissance fair...
...strand of hearts around the neck of someone you admire or grandly urinate on someone you don't. In the Palace you never know what will happen. "The other night I was talking to this guy, and it turned out he was a Satanist," types a young South Park habitue named Wyld DiVa. "I'm Christian myself, but I'm very open-minded, and we ended up discussing theology for, like, three hours while all these kids jumped in and out. It was very surreal...