Word: vacant
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View from Rio. To enliven the city's leisure hours, new movies, bowling alleys and a municipal theater are being built; green parks are replacing vacant lots. A fine new hotel rivals anything in Rio, and a 55,000-seat stadium is nearing completion for Brasilia's five professional soccer teams. The biggest push comes from the city folk themselves, who have formed 29 social clubs. "The government built buildings," says Maurice Shashoa, owner of the Terrace Club, "but it didn't make a capital. That's what we're doing...
...Jones & Laughlin made its intentions public last April, a stampede of speculators began. Property values soared: the steel company had already doubled the going rate by paying $870 an acre for its site, and nearby Hennepin land soon started attracting bids of up to $5,000 an acre. A vacant lot 80 ft. by 150 ft. drew an offer of $10,000. Two speculators tried to buy up stock in Hennepin's sole bank, threatened to put up another one next door when their offer was refused. Half a dozen groups rushed in and offered to buy the Putnam...
Demand for skilled and often for unskilled workers outstrips the supply in Britain (unemployment rate: 1.3%), and in The Netherlands, Australia, Sweden and Japan (all .9%), and in West Germany (.5%). The squeeze is tightest in West Germany, which has 683,000 vacant jobs for 106,000 persons on the unemployment rolls. The shortage would be even worse if Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal were not continuing to export labor; of northern Europe's 4,000,000 foreign workers, 24% are in Germany. Even so, wage boosts this year in Germany (8%) and England (61%) have leaped ahead...
Unfortunately for Biff, his peek-a-boo antics did not go unnoticed. Karandas Nathasingh, instructor in Indian Studies, on his way to the Biology Labs to meet a fellow countryman for lunch, caught a distinct glimpse of the vacant-faced young man lurking behind the statue of John Harvard. Karandas weighed over 350 pounds, and unlike most fat men was of an exceedingly peevish disposition. "Someone," Karandas's mind registered, "is staring at me. This is intolerable. Worse than that, impolite. Has he never seen a fat Indian before?" With that, the Indian increased his speed and flew past Hunt...
...Churchill Pavilion has been mounted with great skill by Designer Philip George in the vast and vacant geodesic dome that was called the Assembly Hall. The story of the great man's life is told in a walk-through illuminated by 500 photographs, after which visitors find themselves surrounded by 32 charming Churchill paintings, which amply demonstrate that he was no mere Sunday painter.* Also on display is a reconstruction of his study at Chartwell, and more than $1,000,000 worth of Churchill memorabilia...