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...Aircraft manufacturing coordinator and a real estate agent. When the cold war ended and Southern California's economy slumped, Warner moved to New Jersey and took a low-wage position as a shoe salesman. He worked hard, but the job didn't really pay off--until the day he fit a pair of black, Italian flats on the slender feet of Mary Del Guidice...
...after which the couple released butterflies, a local Native American tradition. The following day, Tera and Eric rented a houseboat with nine friends for a group honeymoon. "Not only did we first meet on Lake Powell, we own a boat and love the outdoors," says Tera. "Our destination wedding fit us perfectly...
...family used--and this is a family of very significant means. When their kids asked them, Why won't you buy me this consumer-electronic product or this piece of clothing? or, Why can't we go on vacation here? the parents just said simply, "It doesn't fit within our value system." They couldn't tell their kids they couldn't afford it because the kids know they can afford it. But [they can say] it's not O.K. or say, as this mother described to me, You have six very fine pairs of tennis shoes...
This was a more disjointed year—exciting, certainly, but nowhere near as tailor made to fit. There was adversity overcome, surely, with more physical pieces bruised and dented than a garden-variety Pinto. There were individual heroes and an exciting cast of newcomers—names like Klimkiewicz, Farkes, Brunnig and Salsgiver will grace these pages for years to come—and there were pressing, constant problems, like the infield’s downright scary propensity for misplaying grounders. But in the midst of all of this was very little to cling to and run with from...
...contrast to some earlier eras, when Harvard looked at Victorian houses only as they fit into the University’s development plans, he says the current restoration project will help to “knit back the fabric of the neighborhood...