Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bend over! Touch your toes! Good! Again! Good! Again! Yes! Fantastic!" The ever-smiling aerobics instructor, who I shall call Satan, brims with enthusiasm to the point of hysteria. If she spoke this way on the street, she would be arrested for inciting a riot...
This is the Social Security crowd, whose imperturbable coin stuffing accounted in large part for 55% of Atlantic City's gaming win last year. From the street corners of New York City to the hamlets of Pennsylvania, these gamblers in thick-soled white sneakers begin their pilgrimages at dawn, first making their way to deserted parking lots or pick-up points, then wobbling up the bus steps, down the aisle and into a seat. For Josephine Baumann, 71, a retired cook with the face of Edith Bunker, the trip to Bally's Park Place on a recent Wednesday...
...considerations when maintaining airlines." At Northwest, which paid a $650,000 fine to the FAA last month after a 1988 inspection turned up a list of maintenance problems, officials contend that the carrier has an ample cash flow to repay its debt without lowering its maintenance standards. Wall Street analysts tend to accept such views. Says Julius Maldutis, who follows the industry for Salomon Brothers: "I don't believe that any responsible management would hinder maintenance as a result of leveraged buyouts...
David Dinkins has been in politics for almost as long as Bradley, but he seems newer to many New York voters. He has garnered far fewer headlines than Giuliani, who made a name for himself with high-profile cases against Mafia chiefs and Wall Street cheats. Last week elated black voters were greeting Dinkins' victory with tears and shouts of celebration. But some had also already reined in their expectations about what any mayor, black or white, can achieve. "With the Dinkins victory, there is hope," says Utrice Leid, managing editor of the City Sun, a Brooklyn-based newspaper aimed...
...kinder, gentler Sweeney was unimaginable until Susan H. Schulman's intimate reconsideration arrived on Broadway last week. This time the tale comes by way of Dickens. London's gaslit windows ring the circular seating. Tattered gray laundry sags from clotheslines all around. Turbulent street life spills into the aisles. Gloomy, angry and unjust Sweeney's world remains, but human connections now matter...