Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already had a bit of experience with gas reactors. Philadelphia Electric Co. successfully tested a 40-megawatt experimental version from 1967 to 1974. However, the Fort St. Vrain plant, 35 miles north of Denver, has had one breakdown after another during the decade since it began operation. But Lidsky points out that the plant is so big -- 330 megawatts -- that it needs as complex a cooling system as conventional plants. The reactor's large size, he says, has caused most of the trouble...
...from Skokie, Ill., suggests, "Go to downtown Chicago on any given Saturday, and you'll see wedding parties of $15,000 to $40,000 all over the place." Philip Youtie, vice president of the Bridal Marketers Association of America and owner of a large bridal chain with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, adds it up simply. "There are fewer brides but bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes. A mother with holes in her sneakers will pull $1,000 out of her brassiere and say, 'Everything is the best for my daughter.' " Barbara Ferris, 30, whose...
...city zoo ever boasted rides like the Congo River Rapids, the Stanleyville Falls flume or the vertigo-inducing Scorpion--all to be found at Busch Gardens in Tampa. Early Christians never found accommodations as plush as the ones at the "21st century Christian campground" of Heritage USA near Fort Mill, S.C. As for the twin fountainheads of theme parks--Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and the gigantic Walt Disney World outside Orlando--they offer nothing less than a dream of America as it once or never was: a homogenized, turn-of-the-century village propelled into the future by space...
Hank Williams Jr.'s rendition of the red-neck anthem If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Dixie (Then I Don't Want to Go) should be spitting out of your car radio as you make the more than 150-mile drive from Pigeon Forge to Fort Mill, S.C. It will put you in the mood for Heritage USA, Televangelist Jim Bakker's hotel and convention complex that attracts 5 million of the faithful each year. Cynics call the place Six Flags over Jesus, but you will be disappointed if you come expecting a Holy Roller coaster or a guided...
...assignment, Luce toted her cameras and equipment. Bourke-White's success at FORTUNE helped create the concept of photojournalism, the grouping of artful but newsworthy pictures into a narrative that made words subordinate or unnecessary. When Luce began LIFE in 1936, the magazine's first cover picture, of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, was by Margaret Bourke-White...