Word: trams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accommodations are now available even in New York City. Most are bedrooms in apartments in such diverse sites as the loft quarter of SoHo and Roosevelt Island in the East River, which is reached from midtown Manhattan by way of a scenic 3½-min. tram ride. Urban Ventures Inc., a booking service for New York B & Bs, has about 120 listings, nearly all in Manhattan. The most desirable rooms are also centrally located. "What they really want," jokes Mary McAulay, Urban Ventures' co-owner, "is a room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Rates for New York...
...people in academia, in science, in engineering, in medicine, in law, in the crafts-all have been caught in the act of exercising the scruples of a fly-by-night lightning-rod salesman. Skulduggery turns up so often in the commercial world that the best graduate schools of business tram students to cope with deceptive practices. Americans as a whole so stretch the truth in preparing their tax returns that the Internal Revenue Service claims that it cost the U.S. Treasury at least $18 billion last year. An obscure copy editor at the New York Herald Tribune coined the phrase...
This year even transients and drifters are going to be tracked down. As in previous counts, census forms will be distributed to hotels, rooming houses and campgrounds; enumerators will visit missions, flophouses, all-night cinemas and tram and bus stations. For the first time census takers, often working in pairs for safety, will drop by pool halls, food-stamp centers, employment offices. They will approach vagrants on street corners and ask whether they have already been counted...