Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When hundreds of Baltimore steelworkers are laid off from their assembly line in the winter of 1983, however, the comfort abruptly collapses, leaving a wake of rage. Some blame the Japanese or the Government; all confront the terrifying reality that they have what are euphemistically called "nontransferrable skills." At first, hard-drinking Red Baker, former high school basketball star now turning 40, buries his fear. Each day he sees Wanda, his wife of 19 years, off to her waitressing job, and plays one-on-one basketball with their teenage son Ace. "Act like a family man," he tells himself, "keep...
After taking a snooze during the winter, the U.S. economy now appears ready to shake off its lethargy and get moving again. That was the optimistic forecast of TIME's Board of Economists, which met last week in Washington. The members see the U.S. economy growing at a solid 3% annual rate for the rest of the year...
...sets out to become a writer, much as the author herself did in the late 1940s. Such determination and pluck are rare among Gallant's outcast characters. When the girl's native country fails to meet her standards, she puts up a fight. "If I say . . . that the Winter Palace was stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile and fidelity." Her words seem to echo those of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. "I will try to express myself in some mode...
...chuckle out of that. I got out of the cab and I was overwhelmed because the buildings, you know, are really high. I walked east on 42nd Street and then south on Lexington and there was a street fair. It was the summer and I had on a winter coat and was carrying a suitcase. This guy started following me around. He wasn't cute or anything, but he looked interesting. I said hi to him, and he said, "Why are you walking around with a winter coat and a suitcase?" And I said, "I just got off the plane...
...Silent No More crusade is coming on the heels of a well-publicized pro- life campaign last winter. In January, 70,000 antiabortion demonstrators took part in a March for Life in Washington, as they have done on each anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and were addressed by Reagan. His message: "These days, as never before, the momentum is with us." A graphic film that shows ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding...