Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush walked over chunks of concrete beside the 12-mile crumpled stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland where scores of people were feared entombed and talked with rescue workers. He had said he hoped to offer encouragement...
...strike catches Boeing with an unprecedented order backlog of 1,063 commercial jets valued at $80 billion. Delivery dates are in danger of slipping as the company tries to meet surging demand from airlines eager to modernize their aging jet fleets. Earlier this year Boeing was forced to stretch out delivery schedules for its newest jumbo, the 747-400, and to hire hundreds of workers from rival Lockheed to get the program back on a credible schedule. Last week Boeing executives were reassuring customers that the strike, if it is short, would not mean further delivery delays...
...thing, a decade ago fake-fur coats were lumpy modacrylic numbers that clever designers dismissed as "mama coats," garments that conservative women bought to keep out the cold. Now refined techniques allow realistic animal patterns to be printed on more vibrant and active fabrics, such as Lycra, stretch velour and even sheer silk mousseline...
...industry for its use of real animal skins, has, in part, boosted the new fad by encouraging designers to play with the unreal thing in their lines. Designer Christian Lacroix's fringed panther-print polymid shawl ($470) is hot stuff. Patrick Kelly has scored with skinny dresses in leopard stretch velvet ($340), and even purist Giorgio Armani uses mock lynx for a duffle coat in the Emporio Armani line ($685). After dark, the more the merrier seems to be the rule. Says Annie Allanche, a manager at Paris' Irie boutique: "Women are mixing leopard, tiger, giraffe and ocelot for evening...
...eleven-car train starts in Montreal and hooks up in Sudbury with another train from Toronto before setting out toward the west, along a 2,800-mile route. It plows across the vast prairies of Saskatchewan, where wheat and canola fields stretch from horizon to horizon. Then it is on to the Rockies, along ledges that would make an aerialist faint. It presses near the old Calamity Curve, through the Jaws of Death Gorge and, lest passengers have failed to get the message, into the Devil's Caldron...