Word: transients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan plans to explain that high American interest rates are a transient phenomenon; if his budget and tax cuts succeed in reducing inflation and unemployment, interest rates will fall...
There is a danger, of course, that in this burst of enthusiasm Mozart will-or perhaps already has-become overexposed, merchandised like a bar of soap or a political candidate. But while a vogue is transient, music is not, and Mozart's is for the ages. Even music he wrote when he was nine. -By Michael Walsh
...city decay and change less rapidly, but even the center of Manhattan is a mobile of concrete, stone and steel. The camera's lens fixes the flux. When the eye behind it is guided with sufficient knowledge, a magical transformation can happen: a permanent image supersedes its transient subject. It is hard to put a value on such an event, although $6 seems a little low. What George Forss is selling on the sidewalks is slices of a city's soul. -By Paul Gray
...they cannot deny that their secure situation in the Cambridge and Boston market allows them to attract students and other customers to the rest of the store's inevitably overpriced products. And if the Coop's revenues are accordingly high, its labor costs are quite low. The transient nature of the unskilled labor force in the Boston-Cambridge area allows management to pay low wages. In fact, the Coop attracts workers at wages that are dirt-cheap--starting levels for stockboys and clerks, who are often college graduates, border on the minimum wage--not a whole...
...Coop's corps of management officials can not be entirely faulted for the worker's major grievance--the low wages paid many of the company's employees. The low pay-scale is a rational response to the transient nature of the Square's labor force. Many of the stock and sales personnel are recent college graduates only interested in short-term work. It is more profitable for management to exploit high employee turnover and pay low wages than to try to make employees become more productive and stay for longer periods of time. The existing policy might be tolerable...