Word: huts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from John Schnatter, the perfectionist CEO of the fast-growing Papa John's International pizza chain, makes "the hair stand up on the back of your neck," says Tracy Friedlein, who manages a company-owned pizzeria in Louisville, Ky. "You run to do everything to prove yourself." But Pizza Hut chief Mike Rawlings, who has brought a federal lawsuit charging that Papa John's "better ingredients, better pizza" campaign is false and misleading, sees Schnatter in a harsher light. "They have been spreading misconceptions about us," Rawlings says. "We've got to let the truth be known...
...sauce and the texture of dough can be all-consuming passions, the truth these days is that Papa John's has been eating everyone else's lunch. The company has nearly doubled its market share in the past two years, to 4.1%--grabbing away business from No. 1 Pizza Hut and No. 3 Little Caesars and battling delivery king Domino's. Papa John's (1997 sales: $868 million) is the only one of the four largest pizza chains whose slice of the pie has grown at double-digit rates over the past five years. Profits? Papa John's earnings jumped...
...Balkan culture, grown men don't cry. Yet Rexhep Pajazitaj, 63, cried as he sat in a hut near the village of Golubovac in Kosovo. Three months ago, the Serbs destroyed his native hamlet to drive out ethnic separatists. Now Pajazitaj, 17 members of his family and most of his former neighbors live in a rough camp, too terrified to go home. "We thought we would be back home in a week or two, but the police are still everywhere," he says. "Now we're almost out of food, and I don't think the children will survive the winter...
...Stone Age survival. Nineteen years after the hated Vietnamese drove him back into the jungle, the evil that he did lives on in Cambodia's traumatized society, poisoned politics, governmental misrule and pitiful piles of bleached-white skulls. When Pol Pot died last week, alone in a small, thatched hut, his passing left only outrage that this man had cheated earthly justice...
...pettiness of the accusations speaks for itself. Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ads provoke particular ridicule, and while the idea is indeed amusing, they pay his rent. The scorn reminds me of how the Russian upper crust once castigated Peter the Great for being unafraid to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. Amazingly, in our huge, multinational country, where the residents of St. Petersburg speak with a different accent from those of Moscow, Gorbachev's southern speech is held against...