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...ruling affects some 15,500 employees of the state of Washington. Most of them are women who were eligible for comparable-worth salary hikes, plus back pay that could have amounted to $1 billion, under a 1983 decision by Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner in Tacoma. The latest decision may influence three pending comparable-worth cases in California and New York, involving approximately 96,000 workers. Opponents of comparable worth, which President Reagan once called "a cockamamie idea," were gleeful. "There isn't a single valid court opinion now upholding the concept," said William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General...
...been forced to borrow his roommate's identity and Peace Corps credentials and flee Far Eastward to escape gambling debts on the very night of his Yale graduation. Why, he is still wearing his dinner jacket. His first seatmate on the flight has been "Tom Tuttle from Tacoma" (John Candy), who reads books about maximizing his potential capital-wise and is the most egregious go-getter since Babbitt. His next is Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), who rejects a night and a day of advances, to Lawrence's immense puzzlement ("I do think I've put in the hours...
...immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored his new neighborhood recently, one Flushing resident fresh from India had been expecting a blonder, Wonder Bread community, like Des Moines, maybe, or Tacoma. "It wasn't America," he says of northeastern Queens. "It was the U.N. I saw Colombians, Koreans, Chinese, Dominican Republicans -- but not a single hamburger...
...sculptors have been exploring its expressive possibilities. The artist who calls herself Chryssa has used neon in major pieces since the 1960s. Last year Artist Stephen Antonakos created two monumental 96-ft. by 12-ft. abstract neon walls of apple green, red-orange, pink and blues inside the Tacoma Dome, a sports arena. Artist Joe Augusta, who is also a tube bender, shapes masklike faces like Elvis Machine in startling colors, and Los Angeles Artist Eric Zimmerman made a playful neon birthday cake for the city's 1981 bicentennial. "Neon is the strongest, most direct form of illustration," argued Artist...
...funds to make the machines even more widely available. Other states are not far behind. At the Cranford, N.J., public library, business executives testing the latest financial-management programs have to compete for computer time with game-playing teenagers. Video games are not allowed at the public library in Tacoma; instead, the library offers free BASIC programming classes and a well-stocked computer lab, where potential buyers can test-drive the latest models. At the Peterborough, N.H., town library, cardholders check out and take home low-cost computers just as they would a mystery or gothic romance...