Word: resorts
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...result of two devaluations of the peso so far this year, Mexico has become a bargain basement of U.S. tourism. An airplane ticket from Mexico City to Acapulco costs $44 this year, compared with $76 in 1981, and a room at the Hyatt Continental at the Pacific resort can be had for $42 a night, compared with $96 last year. At the famous Las Hadas resort, where the movie "10"was filmed, a couple can spend a week lolling on the beach or practicing their skiing for less than $500. The same outing a year ago would have cost Dudley...
...Federal Reserve Bank in Boston also reflected this tendency to shy away from proposals. Dukakis stuck mainly to a guarded defense of his previous for years in office. When Sears was asked what taxes he would increase if he had to, he responded that, as a last resort, he would use the sales tax. Dukakis--who last time around broke his infamous "leadpipe guarantee" of no new taxes by increasing the bill by $500 million--only insisted that no new taxes would be necessary. Instead he reterated the main specific proposal he has last January--that 40 percent...
Always a last resort, strikes have become an increasingly unattractive option for teachers. There were a record 242 strikes in the 1979-80 school year. The following year there were 191; so far this fall there have been about 65. Only some 20 strikes are still in progress today, and few seem likely to continue for long. A 19-day strike ended in Teaneck, N.J., last week after State Superior Court Judge Sherwin Lester leaned on both sides. He ordered teachers back to work and, when they refused, began commandeering school buildings for use as makeshift jails to confine groups...
After the military program's banishment, Vanserg moved into its current phase, serving as a sort of refugee camp for misfit classes and offices. The registrar's office assigns classes to Vanserg only as a last resort, after all other University rooms are booked. This fall, inordinate numbers of students have classes there: portions of the building were subdivided and refurbished to ease the classroom shortage that renovations in Sever Hall brought on. The classes relocated, though, are still the usual Vanserg rag-bag of offerings from all corners of the Faculty...
Florida has plenty of small towns, but one is famous above all the rest: Palm Beach (pop. 9,700) is a plush, pastel resort for the very rich. Florida also has plenty of divorces: 75,000 last year, more than any other state but California and Texas. But the divorce trial under way at the Palm Beach County courthouse has, like the town, achieved an overcharged notoriety. For starters there is a prize surname: Herbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 52, who filed suit to dissolve his six-year marriage to the former Roxanne Dixon, nee Ulrich. Peter is one of Newspaper...