Word: runge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Mexico for their jobs. The main beneficiaries include salesclerks, teachers and health-care workers. Moreover, according to Muller, the arrival of a large group of new workers at the bottom of the economic ladder has, in the traditional pattern of American immigration, helped others climb to the next rung. Muller found that California's blacks did not suffer an increase in unemployment because of immigration. One reason: increases in the immigrant population have led to an expansion of government services, which has created new jobs for middle-class blacks...
...scruffy street crime and one of the threads you find yourself tugging on is bound to lead to the very top of the social order. That is just fine with Director Ritchie, whose best work (Smile, The Bad News Bears) is acutely observant of manners and morals on every rung of the American ladder. Here everything from the way members treat servants at a posh tennis club to direct-mail advertising receives a glancing satiric blow from his camera. Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent...
Photographer Patrick Demarchelier, who was originally scheduled to do Stephanie's LIFE and Mademoiselle pictures, suggests, "She's a personality. A model you use to do fashion. You can put clothes on a personality, but you're photographing the person more." Personality like that may help a second-rung designer like Coveri scramble for first class ("She will be the ambassadress of my fashion," he announces), but it carries a whole portfolio of particular problems. Catherine Oxenberg, who still works as a model when she is not making regular appearances on Dynasty, is a daughter of Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia...
...said. "I don't see how they can compare cities like Pittsburgh and Yuba City," commented Fireman Ron Ruzich. "It's just a way for someone to sell books somewhere." Part-time Mayor Chuck Pappageorge, a grain merchant, looked for a way to capitalize on the city's bottom-rung prominence. Said he: "If we'd been second to last, no one would have noticed. This is a great opportunity. We'll get some yardage out of this." Better hold that line, Pittsburgh...
...insurers, who will refurbish them and sell them to any interested bidder. Said Lloyd's Spokesman David Larner of the mood at the insurance association: "Jubilant would not be an exaggeration." Indeed, on confirming the second rescue, Lloyd's management ordered the famed "Lutine" bell rung twice, the insurers' traditional signal of a successful salvage, though normally of a more earthly vessel. The underwriters also awarded Allen and Gardner its silver medal of merit for services performed; only three others have been awarded since World...