Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...than a 24-hour-a-day job," says Schott, 62. Nonetheless, she has managed to turn around the fortunes of the red-hot team, which lost $4 million the year before she came aboard. Attendance has jumped 85% during her tenure, to 2.4 million this season. An intrepid cost cutter, she canceled Riverfront Stadium fireworks displays, and signs all checks for the team herself. "Daddy always taught us it wasn't right to waste money," says the chain-smoking Schott. "When I see someone cheat for two bucks it makes me want to throw up." She was devastated...
...Rappaport has focused so much on negative issues is no mystery: He has no record of his own to stand on. Thirty-four years old, with gobs of money from his and his dad's real estate dealings, Rappaport is cut from the same cookie cutter that gave us our illustrious vice-president. (Kerry aides joke that Rappaport is Dan Quayle minus the intelligence.) Rappaport's campaign has focused on few issues other than Kerry's alleged misdeeds, and the need to keep down income taxes on the wealthy (i.e. on him) for the sake of the national economy. Even...
...polar regions. Ants turn more soil than earthworms; they prune, weed and police most of the earth's carrion. Among the most gregarious of creatures, they are equipped with a sophisticated chemical communications system. To appreciate the strength and speed of this pesky invertebrate, consider that a leaf cutter the size of a man could run repeated four-minute miles while carrying 750 lbs. of potato salad...
...diamond cutter stares at the stone until it discloses its inner structure, its secret. If the moralist stares long enough at Palestine/Israel, he thinks it will disclose a miracle of resolution...
...cutter sees the toll that greed has exacted from the land. But it was not so apparent early in his career. "There was tremendous waste in those days," he recalls. "Profit was the name of the game. We thought we would never run out of timber. We started way too late on reforestation." Now he recognizes the need to protect nature from man. "We've only got this one old earth," he says, "and we better take care of it. I most certainly do not think 'environmentalist' is a dirty word. Anybody who isn't one has his head...