Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meetings and Rotary clubs and countless other places where we gather to work together on issues of mutual concern. Tocqueville, I think, was wrong. These two strands of the American character are not in conflict; they are interwoven. They are the warp and woof of our national fabric...
...border of New Hampshire and Massachusetts has come to rely on the good heart of one man. While Aaron Feuerstein may not look much like Jimmy Stewart, he is the protagonist of a Christmas story every bit as warming as the Frank Capra movie--or the Polartec fabric made at his Malden Mills...
...seats. His Duma success in hand, Zyuganov is bent on winning the presidency next June, either for himself or for a popular anti-reform Communist candidate. If he succeeds, the current effort to reform and modernize Russia could be choked off in the grip of reimposed central control. The fabric of Russian society and East-West relations would suffer devastating damage...
What brought Malden Mills out of bankruptcy was its research-and-development team, which came up with a revolutionary fabric that was extremely warm, extremely light, quick to dry and easy to dye. Polartec is also ecologically correct because it is essentially made from recycled plastic bottles. Clothing made with Polartec or a fraternal brand name, Synchilla, is sold by such major outdoors clothiers as L.L. Bean, Patagonia, Eastern Mountain Sports and Eddie Bauer, and it accounts for half of Malden's $400 million-plus in 1995 sales...
...recent instruction to Charles, 47, and Diana, 32, to divorce was a veritable act of state. For this is the worst-case scenario: Elizabeth suddenly dies, Charles becomes King--and an estranged but undivorced Diana, Queen. Their rival courts would then so conspire against each other that the fabric of the British monarchy might rip beyond repair...