Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...union contract a year ago) the workers slept in their cars and bathed in the restroom -- because, at the minimum wage, housing was not an option. A few miles in the other direction, Salvadoran refugees get $125 in cash for 60-hour weeks of heavy outdoor labor. For them, upward mobility would be a busboy's job at $2.90 an hour plus a cut of the tips...
Welcome home, as the quirky, wistful wanderers who call themselves the Rainbow People say to each other every few minutes for reassurance. Where's home? This time it's in the high meadows in the Green Mountain National Forest, a couple of miles westward and upward from Granville, Vt. Up, down and around for half a mile or more in all directions, there are perhaps 14,000 Rainbows. For the 20th July in a row, mostly to the displeasure of local and state authorities, the Rainbows have invited themselves to a different national forest, there peaceably to assemble. And peaceably...
Burnett, 47, appeared to get his big break last fall when the Samuel Goldwyn Co. released To Sleep with Anger, starring Danny Glover, a gentle modern-day folktale about a black Los Angeles family's struggle to reconcile the desire for upward mobility with the traditions of their Southern past. "Today there is so much killing on the movie screens, and it prepares people to accept that kind of thing," says Burnett. "I want to show a sense of tradition and folklore and how important they are to survival...
Couched at the top of one of countless waterfalls that bathe the southeastern foothills of the Peruvian Andes, I enjoy the cool breath of the cascade, which takes the edge off the equatorial sun. From nearby promontories, an observer can look upward to the cloud forests that cling to the mountainous rim of the Amazon basin, or down into the steamy lowland rain forests that extend thousands of miles to the east. As far as the eye can see and beyond, there are no villages, roads or towns. Lying below is the Manu, a 7,000-sq.-mi. area...
...come up with an apparent winner. Flown by a crack new aerobatic team from Moscow, MiG-29 Fulcrum-D jet fighters dazzled spectators at a French air base last month with demonstrations of the Soviet-invented "cobra" maneuver. In a chilling imitation of a striking snake, the aircraft rockets upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies backward in that position and then snaps forward again and resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss the maneuver as impractical for combat, but the sleek blue...