Word: affordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hotel meals seemed designed to horrify any gourmet. But in 1990 the top-rated hotels in the first Zagat U.S. Travel Survey of more than 1,400 inns, resorts and spas all boasted superb cuisine as well as superluxury accommodations. So what if few but foreign tourists can afford them...
CONNECTICUT has an 8% sales tax, one of the nation's highest, which once compensated handsomely for the fact that the state had no income tax. With consumers on a buying binge, the state could afford to let spending rise 59% between 1984 and '88. Then recession hit, the shopping spree ended and sales- tax revenue was reduced to a trickle. For this fiscal year, Connecticut is looking at a $500 million shortfall, which is expected to triple in the next. That would amount to 20% of the state's projected $7.9 billion budget for fiscal 1991, proportionately the highest...
...rise. The urgency of the problems is too easily forgotten. "To some people, the whole concept ((of environmentalism)) is a luxury," says Madeline Albright, professor of international relations at Georgetown University. "In the future, as the economy tightens up, it is conceivable that people will think we can't afford environmental improvements...
Nonetheless, federal prosecutors say they have new and more damaging recordings of Gotti conversations, once again from the Ravenite club building. The snooping devices were planted in an apartment above the club that was used for Mob business. Gotti, who can afford to hire the best electronic bug- detecting experts in the city, apparently considered the apartment secure. But this time, insists James Fox, FBI head in New York, the recordings are "crystal clear . . . Gotti won't be pleased when he hears them...
Eager shoppers often line up hours before the 9:30 a.m. daily openings. Some . arrive in car pools, others in chauffeured limousines. "A friend who could afford anything first brought me here," said an Atlanta shopper. Another says enthusiastically, "You can buy three or four gifts on an $85 budget...