Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenges for companies seeking to grow: eliminating shrinkage (inventory theft), endemic to this industry, and moving manufacturing offshore to provide enough supply to satisfy retailers. "We're interested in companies that can keep up with our growth," says Timothy Harmon, 46, president of Pacific Sunwear, a 342-store national chain specializing in board-sports attire. "A lot of smaller companies aren't sophisticated enough to source overseas...
...School in Hinsdale, Ill.: "The same parents who are complaining that they don't have enough family time would be really upset if their child didn't score well." Pepperdine University president David Davenport, father of a fourth-grader who clocks two hours of homework a night, sees a chain reaction: "The pressure to get into highly selective colleges and universities backs up into high school advanced-placement courses, which backs up to elementary schools." Anxious parents can rail about what teachers do in the classroom, but homework is still one area where parents can directly improve their child...
...McAllister--CEO of Monimals Trading Co. Ltd. of London! "Where can you buy those damn things?" I asked. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship that has at last allowed me to answer the biggest question of our TIME: You can find Monimals at the Electronic Boutique chain. Or call 1-800-948-6777 to order direct...
...morning after. The Blue Room is Hare's adaptation of La Ronde, Arthur Schnitzler's once scandalous play in which 10 characters engage in a daisy chain of sexual encounters. Hare updates the play in predictable ways--the soldier becomes a taxi driver; the "young miss" a miniskirted model--and has all the parts played by the two stars. The casting gimmick, along with the chicly impersonal production (a semiabstract set framed in neon), makes the vignettes seem more facile and obvious: Schnitzler's acid portrayal of sex as the great leveler on a climb up the social ladder...
...Hanks is a hero even when he does bad things. In the perky new comedy You've Got Mail, Hanks runs a giant chain that threatens to ruin a children's bookstore run by Meg Ryan; he is Big Business engulfing and devouring the sweet spirit of independence. In the intimate anonymity of a chat room, he carries on an e-mail affair with Ryan and doesn't tell her that her destroyer is her potential beau. At a literary soiree he scoops up all the caviar. Who is this creep? Tom Hanks. And because he is, he must...