Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bronx every other month," Reynoso says. "Just taking the train from here--it's like I never see day-light until I get there. Going to the South Bronx is like being in two different worlds in the span of four or five hours. I have to shift my whole mentality, my whole existence. It's not just economic, but social and ethnic as well. I come here and I have to become another person."GraphicsRachel E. Kramer...
...gasoline's case, demand has clearly been on the upswing. It used to be that Americans were happy with a full tank and an open road. Now they don't even need the road, given the growing passion for heavy sport-utility vehicles. "If there hadn't been this shift to larger vehicles," says John Lichtblau, chairman of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, "you would have seen a lower increase or perhaps a leveling off of demand...
...sort of tribal-rock look. The clothes are cut tight to the body, not to say skimpy. Minis are micro, midriffs bare. Pinpricked Airtex, borrowed from athletes' uniforms, reigns here. Perhaps the chicest outfit in the group is a plain black vinyl shift. The very latest fashion fabric, polyester treated to appear holographic, appears in pretty iridescent tops. Daphne Rubin-Vega, who plays Mimi in the show and models the clothes here, gets to the point when she says, "They're really bohemian." Well, boho goes uptown...
...M.M.M.A. and the Chrysler Corp. (which sold its share to Mitsubishi in 1991), the $650 million assembly plant employs some 4,000 people, including 70 Japanese nationals--all of them managers--and almost 900 women. Assembly-line and maintenance workers make about $18 an hour and, with overtime and shift-preference pay, can earn annual incomes as high...
...every time the telecommunications industry shifts itself around, we are bombarded with news and analysis and advertisements on how the shift could affect vital decisions on our own individual telephone service. Here's how I feel about decisions on my own individual telephone service: I don't want to make...