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...Denver (19%) and Hartford, Conn. (20%). In South Florida, nearly a million Hispanics (78% Cuban) have spread so rapidly beyond Miami (64% Hispanic) that they sometimes refer to the entire 25-mile-or-so stretch from Miami to the Everglades as Calle Ocho (Eighth Street), after the main drag of Miami's Little Havana...
...postelection handshaking. Pressler and Patterson, says he, "have their own agenda. We know what that agenda is. We have no reason to believe their tactics will change." And if one of their goals is to fire Dilday himself, he says, "the only way I'll leave, is if they drag me out the front door...
Life was restricted elsewhere, too. Says Hohenberg, "At the end of a date, we had to run back to the Quad. That was such a drag. We wanted more freedom...
...because they do not want to be stuck with them when the economy turns down. But in a share system, says Weitzman, the company would have more incentive to hire new employees. The workers would be there to help when business is good, but they would not be a drag on earnings when it is bad because the employees' average pay would fall along with revenues. Workers might be willing to take a pay cut in exchange for job security. "Firms ever hungry for labor," writes the economist, would be "always on the prowl --cruising around like vacuum cleaners...
...future, not the past. The nation's promise tends to override its memories. The best life lies ahead, like a highway heading west. There are American ghosts, of course, haunted rooms, secrets in the attic. But the virtue of the New World has always been its newness. "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory?" Ralph Waldo Emerson asked. Henry Ford never looked back. "History," he said, "is more or less bunk...