Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feelies leave the heavy messages at home. "We are not political," says Mercer. "If anything, we are spiritual." It must be a restless spirit just now, and a little bit anxious as well. Percussionist Dave Weckerman, 38, also free-lances in a Feelies spur group called Yung Wu and holds down a part-time job as a shipping clerk. Million, the only married band member, has a seven- year-old son and works behind the register at northern New Jersey's only rent- a-laser-disk store. Drummer Stan Demeski, 28, moved out of his mother's home only this...
...Japan, handling 4.8 million individual and 200,000 corporate accounts. In addition, the company has a 2,600-strong force of part-time saleswomen, mostly middle-aged, who troop from door to door, hawking stocks and bonds. This corps was established 30 years ago, when the company sought to spur personal investment by distributing savings chests to Japanese households. The local saleswoman held the keys to savers' chests. Each month she came by to empty the chest and place the money in the customer's Nomura account. The company gave out more than 1 million chests before the gimmick...
...lowest level since 1974. The Labor Department reported last week that the unemployment rate dropped to 5.3% in June, down from 5.6% the previous month. Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution, thinks the jobless level is approaching the threshold at which it begins to spur wage and price increases. Says he: "I like an unemployment rate of 5.3%, but if it goes below 5%, then I would be concerned." Yet other economists think the work force can readily accommodate the scattered shortages. Says Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "We have a flexible...
...physician from Eugene, Ore., who is backpacking through the country with his wife Kathy. "All our friends asked us, 'Why would you ever want to go there?' " After first visiting Greece and one of its islands, Kos, about six miles off the Turkish coast, the Pyfers decided on the spur of the moment to see Bodrum. They loved what they found. "The people are gentle and gracious, and the villages are wonderful," says Pyfer. "We'll be back...
Whether that means cooking meals for her Russian emigre family, or organizing a spur-of-the-moment, May Day waltz on Weeks Bridge with her roommates, Rodriguez is up to the task...