Word: chaining
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...accounts, he whipped a flabby Gore operation into something like fighting trim by cutting costs, establishing a chain of command and getting Gore to loosen his iron grip on campaign minutiae. Coelho made the Gore campaign what it is today - shape-shifting, unsure of how best to proceed, but very much within striking distance of George W. Bush...
...Marriott chain has opened about 150 managed-retirement communities under the names Brighton Gardens and MapleRidge, apparently confident that boomers will be filling the apartments in 10 years, the assisted-care quarters in 20, the intensive-care units in 30. About 25% of those latter spaces are being specifically reserved for residents with cognitive disorders. Makes sense: while only 8% of people over 65 suffer from the severe memory loss that characterizes Alzheimer's disease, the number leaps to a range of 30% to 47% for those over 85, and we all know that we're going to live longer...
...semi-retirees, fit and healthy, working part time from their homes while enjoying the fruits of well-invested savings and well-funded pension plans. That's what the management is counting on at the headquarters of the Del Webb Corp. in Phoenix, Ariz., developers of the Sun City chain of retirement communities. Del Webb executives are quivering in anticipation of a flood of boomers pouring into the retirement-home market. LeRoy Hanneman, 54, Del Webb's CEO, stands on a hill from which he can see his company's future as vividly as he can mix metaphors: "The explosion...
...might expect her to favor shadowy, wrong-side-of-town pubs. Bewley's on Westmoreland Street at first glace seems like the kind of coffeehouse where one might spy Chandler, Monica and the rest of the Friends gang sipping cappuccinos. But in truth, Bewley's is a historic chain in Ireland (James Joyce is claimed as a past patron), so this is where O'Connor, who lives nearby in a three-bedroom apartment, chooses to meet and talk about Faith and Courage, her brilliant new album that's due out next week...
Here we go again. Stocks set off on a fair-to-middling rally (by recent standards, anyway) Friday after hearing the fair-to-middling good news about wholesale prices from the Labor Department. The Producer Price Index, a bottom-of-the-food-chain indicator of inflation pressure, was unchanged in May, which was good news for those watching Chairman Greenspan's interest-rate trigger finger; on the other hand, the possibly more reliable "core" rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged up 0.2 percent. Complicating matters: Prognosticators were agreeably surprised by the first number and slightly disappointed...