Word: hut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggestions in minutes. For example, Interbrand, a London firm with U.S. headquarters in Manhattan, instructed its computer to create words starting with p and containing a double z. The computer came up with several hundred possibilities, including Priazzo, now a best-selling pizza dish sold by the Pizza Hut chain. When International Harvester decided it needed a new image, Anspach Grossman asked its computer to reel off names that suggested a "leader" with "direction and focus." Presto. Out popped "navigate" and "star," which were then combined to form Navistar...
...sympathetic chords at Lincoln Center, where an earnest conventionality prevails. Schenk and Schneider- Siemssen staged the Met's highly regarded 1977 Tannhauser, a glowing, romantic evocation of the Thuringian countryside, with a sharp eye for naturalistic detail, and their Die Walkure is in the same tradition. Hunding's rude hut in Act I is an enormous wooden lodge, with an imposing tree growing in its center, while the landscapes of Acts II and III are rocky and forbidding. They are not so much sets as illustrations from a handsome coffee- table book, but they capture well the Ring's mythic...
...more than 500,000 died. In 1975 the rebel cause turned into Anya Nya II, and in 1983 it splintered further into the SPLA. As their leader, the SPLA members chose Garang, a former lieutenant colonel in the Sudanese army whose academic skills had taken him from a peasant hut in the Dinka tribal village of Wangkulei to a doctorate in agricultural economics at Iowa State University...
...soft- drink manufacturer (1985 sales: $8.1 billion) announced last week that it had agreed to acquire Kentucky Fried Chicken, now owned by RJR Nabisco, for about $850 million. If the deal goes through, the purchase of the 6,500 KFC restaurants will give PepsiCo, which already owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, some 14,000 fast-food outlets, more than any other chain. McDonald's, with 9,000 stores, is the current leader...
...people a year to a Club Med as a plum for good performance. Says Philippe Morot, a Total executive: "It is remarkable what work gas-station managers will do to win." Other corporate clients have included Japan's Sony and Nikon, as well as Harley-Davidson and Pizza Hut from the U.S. Trigano plans to step up efforts to attract American companies with a "Club Med Corporate" campaign that will appear in business magazines starting in September...