Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Herman noted in a holiday weekend address that even though businesses were forced to swallow the first stage of the minimum wage increase ??a 50-cent boost ? last October, the economy is "in better shape than in many, many years." America's lowliest workers are now making $5.15, and unemployment is at a 24-year low. Conveniently, most CEOs also were off enjoying a long weekend, so nobody was around to rebut...
...taint of kitsch. Close Encounters reaches an anticlimax with its hackneyed vision of dainty space guys trooping out of the mother ship. Contact cannot explain its scientist-heroine's obsession without mawkish flashbacks to her childhood as an orphan; and when she finally meets the Vegans, they take the shape of long-lost Dad--to make it "easier" for her. Apparently our kind can handle only so much strangeness at a time: we travel for light-years, down through the raging chaos of cosmic wormholes, only to arrive on the set of The Waltons...
...Teamster leader has picked a particularly tough time for a showdown. Even as Carey rallied the troops last week, it was clear that the Teamsters' finances were in no shape for a lengthy walkout. With the union's membership down from 2 million a decade ago to 1.4 million today, its strike fund is thinner than a picket sign. Strikers, some of whom have been pulling down $50,000 a year, can count on benefits of only $55 a week...
...year before Autumn's birth--a marriage arranged, according to former friends, to help the Mexican immigrant gain U.S. citizenship. Joan Green, who was a waitress at the Los Angeles restaurant where Upshaw's mother and Vasquez worked, says everyone there assumed Vasquez was the girl's father. "The shape of her eyes and her eyebrows are Jesus," Green says. "And if you look at her baby pictures, Autumn had pin-straight hair." Upshaw, through her attorney, asserts that she never lived or had sexual relations with Vasquez, who has not surfaced, though a marriage license confirming their nuptials...
...world's eighth largest trading economy, as well as China's premier asset. In 1996, the territory's entities channeled about $100 billion into mainland China, about 60 percent of all the capital injected into the country. The economic links with the mainland represent the most significant factor to shape the short-term future of the territory, which has acquired the new status of China's Special Administrative Region in the historic event of the handover on midnight of June 30. Indeed, it was in the aftermath of the embargo on China that the present economic might was being born...