Word: transients
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...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...
...button-down shirts. A cynic would say that the culture's manic quest for novelty has simply exhausted some of its adventurously kinky experiments (open marriage, bisexuality, a doctrinaire celibacy, banana smoking and roller disco) and so returned to the Real Thing, temporarily no doubt. It is all transient fashion, the cynic would say, like a return of the '40s look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker. The designer Betsey Johnson, a woman who previously went around with her hair dyed pink or green...
When Reagan flew back to Los Angeles Friday for meetings with his advisers on Cabinet appointments, he left a capital suffused with good feeling, how ever transient. By adroit use of pageantry he effectively communicated an important message: he means to begin as a consensus seeker rather than a hard-edged ideologue, a man who will try to win the cooperation of the permanent establishment rather than govern over its opposition...