Word: belt
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With his fast talk about how to "strategize" a craps table, his self- designed gold-inlaid ruby belt buckle and a jet-black Western shirt embroidered with two crimson roses, Ken Wickham, 63, is the very image of a high-rolling gambler. He stands 6 ft. 6 in. in his 10-gallon hat that is festooned with red feathers and a Hopi rain-dance pin for good luck. Wickham soon lets you know he's no ordinary man: he says he's an evangelist minister who flew half a dozen missions with the 101st Airborne Division in World...
...people," repeats Hidehisa Mori, 29. Mori, who says he grew up watching dubbed Clint Eastwood and John Wayne movies, proudly tugs at his black Stetson and sticks his thumbs over his rattlesnake-buckle belt. Only the Japanese-English dictionary sticking out of his shirt pocket spoils a perfect Marlboro-man look...
...Kenya's leading environmentalist, Wangari Maathai has been honored as a hero and denounced as a subversive. Maathai, 51, is the founder and director of the Green Belt Movement, a 14-year-old tree-planting project staffed primarily by women. The internationally acclaimed movement, which has spread to a dozen African nations, has planted 10 million trees. The goal: to counter rampant tree clearing and the advance of the African desert, which contribute to poverty and hunger. To date, 50,000 Kenyan women have worked in 1,500 GBM nurseries, earning 4 cents for each tree they tend; funds come...
...belt tightening also includes a tough new travel and hiring policy and the cancellation last February of the afternoon edition of the Times. But compared with those of many papers, the financial constraints are modest. In the past year the Times has opened new bureaus in Berlin, Brussels and Budapest, and has somehow found enough cash to lure talent from national magazines and newspapers...
...governors can help Bush achieve these goals by reconsidering their own budget plans. California Gov. Pete Wilson, for example, has begun tightening his state's belt by cutting almost 10 percent from aid to poor mothers. Weld and Gov. Douglas Wilder of Virginia are both proposing decreases in funds for their states' public schools and colleges. While these cost-cutting measures may solve budget woes temporarily, they are regressive in the long run. They deny the poor the chance to break the cycle of poverty, and simply maintain the current economic status...