Word: customize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Businessmen brave or foolhardy enough to try rebuilding in the riot corridors met with one failure after another. Even before the rubble was cleared away, John Snipes opened a custom-shirt shop on U Street to cater to snappy dressers in the neighborhood. It quickly faded in the area's dreary economic climate. "You couldn't get insurance. You couldn't get credit. You just couldn't get anything," says Snipes. "You'd look around and see all these empty buildings, all this devastation and that put a damper on us." Since then, Snipes has tried two other enterprises...
...millions of American but the way churches go about recruiting members to keep their doors open. Increasing numbers of baby boomers who left the fold years ago are turning religious again, but many are traveling from church to church or faith to faith, sampling creeds, shopping for a custom-made God. A growing choir of critics contends that in doing whatever it takes to lure those fickle customers, churches are at risk of losing their heritage -- and their souls...
...There's an awful lot of hand-tooled custom tailoring that has to go on," Rudenstine said. "Fortunately, there are quite a few good programs in place already around the country...and I think if the government chooses to build quite a bit on those and go about it in a way of gradually scaling up...then it has a good chance of working...
...Seventy percent of the guys who go to school here go out with a baseball cap in the morning," says Louie Fenerlis, the manager and a haircutter at the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle St. "They come in here with hat heads...
Murphy, a general cook, and Pucci, a chef's helper, have seven years experience between them in Harvard's dining halls, in jobs ranging from kitchen laundry to custom catering...