Word: forte
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...been under way for several years to re-create, commemorate and just plain profit from the first and greatest American off-road trip. From the Falls of the Ohio, where a festival will celebrate the place at which Clark climbed aboard Lewis' keelboat, all the way west to tiny Fort Clatsop, Ore., where visitors will chat with Lewis and Clark impersonators, the roadside plaques are already being engraved, the campsites cleared and the motel rooms painted. Whether one's interest in following Lewis and Clark centers on geography, natural history, Native Americans or the simple pleasure of eating a cheeseburger...
...urbane couturier who defined American style by marrying comfort with elegance; of throat cancer; in New Preston, Conn. Among his signatures were striped sailor T shirts in fine fabrics and cashmere sweaters atop taffeta skirts as alternatives to evening dresses. The son of a hardware-store owner from Fort Wayne, Ind., Blass watched Carole Lombard movies and sketched New York City cocktail parties as a boy; later, he dressed--and befriended--such clients from the social elite as Nancy Reagan and Pamela Harriman...
...chilling stories of persecution that continue to reverberate long after the end of the Vietnam War. The Montagnards had fought for the losers in that conflict, side by side with Green Berets (who later helped arrange their relocation to North Carolina near the American special-forces base at Fort Bragg). In Vietnam, old scores are being settled to this day. The refugees say they are being forced from their birthplaces by the Vietnamese?a people ethnically, linguistically and culturally distinct from the Montagnards. Vietnamese from the north have systematically moved onto and taken Montagnard land, and the government has repressed...
...that brought real synergy to his disparate businesses. He had little patience for GE's vaunted Six Sigma quality-control doctrine, nor did he make enough investments in information technology. And he apparently didn't do a good job of nurturing a new generation of managers: retired chairman John Fort had to return as interim CEO last week. Some analysts think that in his passion for quick deals, Kozlowski often overpaid, most notably for CIT, which may fetch just half the $10 billion Tyco paid...
Apparently not. Late last week Tyco's interim CEO, Fort, emphasized that "Dennis is gone." Then he repeated it: "Dennis is gone." --With reporting by Daren Fonda/New York and Adam Zagorin/Washington