Word: altos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modern-day craze had its origins in 1979, when members of Oxford University's Dangerous Sports Club, having read about the land divers, put on tuxedoes and top hats and dropped from the Golden Gate Bridge. Among early devotees were two brothers, John and Peter Kockelman of Palo Alto, Calif., who in 1987 began jumping from bridges over river gorges in the Sierras. Recognizing the sport's commercial potential, they quit their jobs as engineers and in May 1988 opened Bungee Adventures in Palo Alto. Recently the Kockelmans introduced hot-air balloons as jumping platforms. Every week 100 jumpers ranging...
...ranks in corporate America. To the extent that U.S. executives often equate leadership with assertiveness, Asians' traditional reticence and self- effacement have proved detrimental to corporate advancement. "We mind our own business and keep our noses to the grindstone," says David Lam, head of Expert Edge Technology in Palo Alto, Calif. "Doing a good job has turned into a bad thing." Now that Asians see themselves as players, they want to be part of the corporate game. Says Harry Kitano, professor of social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Twenty or 30 years ago, we didn't expect...
...comes at the end of Frank Morgan's album Mood Indigo. Hearing it first and taking it at face value, casual listeners might figure they were in for an overdose of New Age good vibes and reach for the off button. That would mean missing out on some elegant alto sax, the kind of jazzmanship that combines the hip and the heartfelt in an accessible, up-to-the-minute sound...
...million people in 133 countries, united in a plea to the globe's leaders to get on with the great cleanup. Already there are 1,500 separate programs and demonstrations planned in the U.S., and the harried staff of Earth Day, encamped in a small office in Palo Alto, Calif., receives notification of at least 100 new events each day. They expect crowds of hundreds of thousands of people in New York City and Washington, and out in Tennessee the good green thumbs are expecting to plant 4 million tulip poplar seedlings. The quiet celebrations of kids and oldsters...
...largely as a result of defense cutbacks. Meanwhile, the median price of a Los Angeles home reached $224,000 in the third quarter of 1989, up 18.7% from the previous year. Says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto: "It's very unlikely that home prices will rush ahead in the next two years. It's not a crash scenario, but I don't see prices being pushed much higher." In the topsy- turvy world of the '90s, even the Golden State will endure a changing fortune...