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...office is ornate and spacious but nothing at all special by Washington standards. Yet the 27-ft. by 16 3/4-ft. second-floor sanctum in the marble- clad Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue has a unique feature: from behind its cluttered wooden desk, the occupant has a breathtaking view of almost every hazard that currently confronts the U.S. and world economies. In the foreground is the distressingly weak dollar, which threatens to push the inflation rate out of control once again. In the middle distance: sluggish levels of U.S. and world growth that could easily tail off into global...
Well, not exactly. If Du Page and dozens of other fast-growing counties all over the U.S. are beginning to look like spread-out cities, most of their residents can still loll in a hammock in a spacious backyard on a late-spring evening. But these counties are hardly suburbs anymore, at least in the traditional sense of being bedroom communities for nearby cities. Not only jobs but also gourmet restaurants and chic stores are close at hand. As a result, people like Engineer Daniel Nee, a resident of Gwinnett County, Ga., 18 miles from Atlanta, commonly go six months...
...line of business is complete without a convention, and baseball cards have plenty. At one of the 65 trading shows held on a single recent weekend, some 400 hobbyists lined up in New York University's spacious Greenwich Village student center to pay $7 apiece for personalized autographs from New York Mets stars. (For a day of such work, past and present baseball stars can earn anywhere from...
...scale, it rates a nicely curved 9. Painted faux arches on pastel-tinted walls. Plush mauve carpeting. Bathrooms papered with Marimekko designs. Dressing rooms with spacious lockers. Cheerful, friendly staff. And on the way out, visitors receive a single carnation. "It's nice to be treated like a woman," sighs Susan Arcidiacono with pleasure. A ritzy health club? An elegant hair salon? Not at all. The swanky suburban San Diego setup belongs to Women's Health Centers of America and is a model of a hot '80s health-care fashion: the women's clinic...
After five grim years, McCarthy (but not her brothers) is rescued by her maternal grandparents and taken to live once again in Seattle. Her new home is spacious and comfortable. Her guardians make gentle attempts to keep the headstrong girl in check: "My grandmother had statutory ages for everything, sixteen for boys, fourteen for real, non-ribbed silk stockings, fifteen perhaps for lipstick." These restrictions do not keep Mary from losing her virginity during her sophomore year in high school...