Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressive riff, but is it a tune for today? Brown is coming out with an old-fashioned general-interest magazine, like Look or LIFE, at a time when publishing is gaga for websites and niches. Yet if anyone could dust off the genre, it's probably Brown, one of America's most successful magazine editors--if you're measuring in buzz rather than bucks. She's the one who put the glitz into Vanity Fair and the news into the New Yorker. When an editor who's won an astonishing 14 National Magazine Awards decides to cook from scratch, expectations...
...nighttime is the right time to enjoy these campfire tales about UFO sightings. They time-trip the ear medium back to its spooky prime, when Orson Welles scared America witless with a Martian Halloween prank, when Arch Oboler intoned sepulchrally, "And now, Lights Out." A typical Coast to Coast is an all-night ghost story disguised as a talk show. The story being told may be the truth; it may be a crock. But it's often great radio...
...your exuberant photos of the championship game [SPORT, July 19], I could feel the excitement of these wonderful young women athletes as they won the World Cup in soccer. The U.S. players were not favored over China, but they proved they had determination and heart. They are indeed America's newest dream team. TOM WAKEN Oklahoma City, Okla...
Daniel Hubbard, director of corporate communications at Schwab, which is America's leading online broker, created the club for employees at his company's San Francisco headquarters. He believes adventure racing will develop personal and team skills. He also hopes it will help his workers get to know one another better or meet for the first time, and will promote loyalty to the company. About 10 members of the club, a continuing Schwab endeavor, will later represent Schwab in a race Oct. 27 through Oct. 29. It will include some 30 corporations, so the program may also be used...
...same way that banks are bombarding customers with ATM and service fees, giants like Citigroup, MBNA, Bank of America and American Express are raising fees, to $20 or $30, for being late or over limit. They're also shortening and rigidly enforcing grace periods on bill payments, upping foreign-transaction fees and imposing penalty interest rates of 20% or more. Some bewildered customers are being punished for not charging enough (inactivity fees). And even if you pay your MasterCard, say, but fall behind on your Discover charge, the MasterCard issuer might raise your interest rate, because you're deemed...