Word: depotism
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...consumers launch summer fix-up projects, many are heading for megastores run by Atlanta-based Home Depot, the do-it-yourself industry's hottest star. Home Depot has grown from four stores with sales of $22 million in 1980 to 145 stores that rang up $3.8 billion last year. Margaret McKenna, who watches the $110 billion-a-year home-improvement and -repair business for Wall Street's Smith Barney, sees "a wide, wide margin in the industry between Home Depot and everybody else...
Special-operations forces had been deep inside Kuwait for at least a week, harassing Iraqi forces and striking command-and-control centers; the U.S. had even set up a helicopter-refueling depot about 25 miles behind the Iraqi border fortifications. As the deadline approached, allied engineers cut wide passages through defensive sand berms that the Iraqis had erected along the borders, creating gaps that soldiers and tanks could pour through. Allied planes began using napalm for the first time in the war, dropping it on oil- filled trenches in front of Iraqi positions. The Iraqis had planned to set fire...
Disgruntlement among the press was roiling all week. Press briefings in Saudi Arabia grew testy, as tight-lipped officers evaded questions as simple as what the weather was like over Iraq. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams was fending off more attacks than an Iraqi supply depot. "There is a beast of war out there, an elephant we're trying to describe," said a frustrated Forrest Sawyer on ABC's Nightline. "Based on the information we're given, we're about at the toenail range." Pentagon briefings, meanwhile, churned out sterile numbers (1,000 sorties a day, 80% of them successful...
...that." They rattle off 20 different reasons why they didn't do something. Almost 100% of the time they were capable of doing exactly what they said they should have done. But they didn't. So they couldn't. It's like trains going in and out of the depot. They've got no destinations, but they keep moving. You have to have the pelotas to get on one, and the wisdom to know whether it's going in the right direction, and the courage to jump off and do something about it if it's | the wrong direction...
...past couple of years, Gaultier's spectacles have been upstaged by those of a former employee, Martin Margiela, the current darling of the avant- garde. For his show, Margiela, 31, rented an old railroad station now used as a truck depot. The scene outside resembled a hot disco, with a bouncer deciding who of the throng would...