Larry Mishel said that he can easily spin this report into a glass-half-empty story.
The pubs and clubs sector experienced a glass-half-full moment to contrast with another glass-half-empty story today as the bar and restaurant group Mitchells & Butlers reported soaring demand for food, while the nightclub operator Luminar suffered another slide in sales.
Not far away, J1 is another one of the remodeled old piers, its empty top story of concrete pillars and floor converted last year to make room for yet more exhibition spaces and a restaurant.
"The City of Mirrors was always an empty nest story," he says.
Last year I read Marshall Ulrich's Running On Empty, the story of how he ran across the US whilst in his mid 50s.
Their new home was two large apartments on the top floor of an empty four-story apartment building with small shops on the ground floor.
The Empty Family: Stories.
THE EMPTY FAMILY: Stories, by Colm Toibin (Scribner, $24).
THE EMPTY FAMILY: Stories, by Colm Toibin (Scribner, $15).
