Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oklahoma has a 7.8% unemployment rate, and last month's annual state fair in the town of Ada attracted a record 9,800 job seekers, more than double last year's turnout. Phillips Petroleum, based in Bartlesville, Okla., last week said that it will soon lay off between 2,000 and 2,500 employees, up to 9.4% of its total work force. Says Kerry Malone, editor of an Oklahoma oil-industry publication: "No one is jumping out of windows yet, but they're looking at the ledges...
...bust is especially hard on the brash boomtowns that flourished in the early 1980s, when energy prices were peaking. Six years ago, Evanston, Wyo., a dusty town (pop. 1,250) on the Utah border, was dubbed "Oil City, U.S.A." because of its strategic location atop the Overthrust Belt, then a choice location for petroleum exploration. Oil-rig workers earned upwards of $1,000 a week. Recalls Jerry Cazin, 77, who has owned the Cazin & Houtz hardware store in Evanston for 51 years: "People thought they were going to be in clover all their lives." Today the area's wells have...
Life is slowly returning to the town of Tenancingo. The grade school has reopened its doors, as have the youth club and the carpentry workshop. Once again women call to one another from window ledges as they sit weaving palm straw into strips for hats and bags. Two weeks ago, bus service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their...
...good to have the facts in order to refute those who feel universities are a drain on local economies," Harvard Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien said. Private universities, including Harvard, often draw criticism from town governments because as non-profit institutions they are exempt from property taxes...
...names and medals. For while Meese recently announced that he had important cabinet business keeping him from making his scheduled appearance tomorrow, he did not say that he would decline the award. His reception has merely been pushed to May 20 on a flimsy excuse; Meese will be in town this weekend. The postponement is surely an effort to let the controversy die down, and the rescheduling seems supiciously timed to coincide with exams and thus cut down on the number of protestors...