Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passenger in his car. Next comes a pickup carrying six teenage Mexican girls, all trim in their red vests. They are returning to Juarez from their classes at a Roman Catholic girls school in El Paso. Behind them is Yolanda Rivas, who is heading home after an eight-hour shift in an El Paso clothing factory, where she earns $135 a week sewing trousers, a job that would pay $30 a week in Juarez. So it goes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Says Veronica Jacquez, 24, a native of El Paso who is personal secretary to Juarez...
...others, a few words of respect; beyond that, the sense of isolation is ferocious. The motto of an aristocratic French family declared: "Roi ne puis, prince ne daigne, Rohan je suis" (King I cannot be; prince I do not deign to be; I am a Rohan). Shift the context and you have the epitome of Bacon's own view of his place in 20th century...
...focus of the big banks' drive to enter new territory will now shift to Congress. The large financial companies are pinning their hopes on a bill that will open regional arrangements to all banks in five years. It sets July 1, 1990, as a trigger date, after which the barriers against outsiders will be dropped. The legislation was approved last week by the House Banking Committee. Said William Dabaghi, general counsel to the Coalition for Regional Banking and Economic Development, which represents medium-size lenders: "Unfortunately, our opponents did their homework and managed to convince a number of the swing...
...would probably pass by it a million times without noticing it. The Tasty is less of an experience in food than an experience in sociology. Go there if you like to hang out with the Cambridge cops on their break, as well as most of late-shift Cambridge. Beware of ordering anything that looks like it's been around a while; it probably...
...Pacific, have boiled out of the moist, hot air over the Bay of Bengal to sweep across Bangladesh. With its wide-open flatlands and labyrinthine waterways sprinkled with hundreds of chars (tiny islands created by silt deposits from the rivers and tributaries that empty into the bay and shift as the water level changes), southern Bangladesh is especially vulnerable to the attacks of great tropical tempests. Seven of the world's ten most destructive killer storms on record have ripped through the Bay of Bengal...