Word: forts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOLLY IVINS is a writer who normally creates heat, as any politician she's scorched can tell you. But Ivins, whose column in the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram is widely syndicated, found someone to admire in Willis Carrier, the father of air conditioning. Ivins, after all, lives in the Sunbelt--and Carrier's engineering achievement has helped make it much more livable...
...technical standard for residential service, many carriers are expected to shift their home DSL efforts into a higher gear. US West already offers consumers DSL service in more than a dozen states, for example, and BellSouth says it will begin rolling out DSL service to consumers in Atlanta; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and four other Southeastern cities before the end of this year. Many of these services will offer less than full-throttle speeds and cost $60 or more a month, but they still spell relief from today's World Wide Wait...
...holding down the fort during the time that Maynard was ill," he said. "I have immense respect for him but am also extremely excited for this new challenge...
...through your head after the 80s dance? Are you really meant to be a child of the 80s? Time warp back to your favorite childhood era by having an old-fashioned arcade experience at the Salem Willows Arcade. Play those noisy obsolete video games and win useless prizes. 173 Fort Avenue, Salem, (781) 745-0251; Bring quarters, lots of them...
...ability to take extra time off are attractive lures in the current economy. Sometimes they give employees the chance to develop the idealistic side that earlier generations felt constrained to repress when they put on a business suit and tie. Bonnie Weisner, 34, a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek to a 24-hr. workweek...