Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each week the knot of men who spend the day hanging out in the central plaza grows. The older ones, their heads invariably protected against the searing spring sun by white straw hats, mutter occasionally to one another, then lose themselves in the local paper. The younger ones, several of them wearing BORN IN THE U.S.A. T shirts, banter loudly and watch the girls go by. Their burgeoning numbers are the first sign that the flow of Mexicans seeking jobs and a better life in the U.S. is beginning to reverse itself. American cars with license plates from Illinois, California...
...made what he calls the "killing of a lifetime" -- about $150 million -- by switching from dollar investments into Japanese yen. He took the plunge after learning that top officials of the five largest industrial countries (Britain, France, Japan, West Germany, the U.S.) had met at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Soros' guess: the five would lower the value of the dollar against other major currencies...
...Compatriots! Happy Easter! The warned men have cased" their 72-hour mutiny, a beaming Alfonsin told 400,000 cheering people packed in Plaza de Mayo, the main square in downtown Buenos Aires...
...executives. A major part of the $1 billion renovation now / under way at the Hilton chain is the creation of business centers in most of its hotels. There, guests can use computer terminals, pick up business publications and check stock quotes on the Dow Jones financial wire. The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles offers quick typing, photocopying and telex services and the use of a reference library at its business center...
Practitioners are successfully digging in at malls. Bob Watt opened Massage Works just six months ago in a plaza in Plantation, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale. Nestled between a VCR repair store and a restaurant, the shop is so busy Watt has had to hire three more therapists. Airports are another new arena. At the Phoenix and Dallas-Fort Worth terminals, tense travelers can drop into the Air Vita health club and get a relaxing massage. One satisfied customer, Dr. Steven Jacobson of Madison, Wis., says massage could figure in his future flight plans: "It might be a reason to have...