Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...With the local hoosegow crowded, Boise authorities quickly put up an annex: a big top. Since July 6, nonviolent offenders have served weekend terms under a flashy red-and-white tent ordinarily used for the local fair...
...Rhodes scholarship to Magdalen College at Oxford. His classmate Bill Bardel, now a managing director of Shearson Lehman Hutton, recalls that Souter belonged to a group that would return so late to their rooms after visiting the local pubs that they would have to climb a ladder to get over the locked gates. Back at Harvard Law School, Souter played the role of courtly gentleman, wearing a three-piece suit to parties and telling stories in his strong New England accent. Says Levine: "No one I've ever met is more fun at a party; he has that British satirical...
Unlike many French companies, Hermes uses local talent to guide overseas operations. Says Chrysler Fisher, an Oklahoman who is president of U.S. operations: "The word elitist makes my blood curdle." Fisher has installed a toll-free phone number to make Hermes products available "to any customer in Des Moines." A postman in Waco, Texas, became Hermes' first U.S. designer after drawing scarves featuring a Pawnee Indian chief and a wild turkey...
...when church attendance runs to a pitiful 2.4% of the populace. Carey himself was unchurched as a youth. Interviewed in June by the Church Times, he recalled, "I did not encounter living Christianity until I was 17 when, through my brother of 13, I went along to the local Anglican church, found the worship appallingly boring but the fellowship and preaching riveting. There I found Christ, or, should I say, he found...
...Long Island during the '40s, Woodbury caught roller coaster fever at Coney Island, which then boasted no fewer than five coasters. After conquering the legendary Cyclone, Woodbury was hooked, and ever since, when his travels allow, he dashes off to an amusement park to try out the local thrill machine. Woodbury figures he has had innumerable rides on some 25 different roller coasters over the years. As a journalist, he chronicled the evolution of the roller coaster for TIME a decade ago. Woodbury found on this trip through the turnstiles that technological advances have made the chills even bigger...