Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whyte has detected what may be a selfish motive behind the suburban corporate shift. He tracked 38 companies that left New York City over a ten- year period and discovered that 31 of them had relocated to within eight miles of the home of their chief executive officer. "I take that at face value," he says deadpan...
...Salinas acknowledged in his broadcast. But the agreement produced an almost immediate benefit in restoring some confidence in Mexico's financial stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers anticipated the debt deal. That shift, which will reduce Mexico's cost of financing its budget deficits, gives the country another much needed boost toward new growth...
Maybe. At any rate, it seems likely that sociologist Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift (Viking; $18.95) will turn up in empty fridges, on piles of undone laundry and taped to "I'm long gone, George" notes left on breakfast tables. It is dire stuff, whose thesis is that in normal, modern two-career marriages, most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, food shopping, or enough other chores to count...
...result, says Hochschild, is that most wives among the 50 two-job couples she interviewed drive home from the office while plotting domestic schedules and playdates for the children, and then work a second shift. Recent national studies she surveyed concluded that women spend 15 fewer hours at leisure each week than their husbands. In a year they work an extra month of 24-hour days. Hochschild's couples were fraying at the edges, and so were their careers and their marriages. She notes that the women did not much resemble, in their mind's-eye views of themselves...
...shift from unproductive military outlays to spending on such things as infrastructure and education. Bridges, not bombs. Teachers, not tacticians. Drug rehabilitation complexes, not barracks...