Word: hybridize
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...homeowner's headache is becoming the entrepreneur's opportunity. While the housing market remains flattened by mortgage rates that are approaching 17% in many parts of the country, business is booming for a hybrid real estate product known as the miniware-house, usually a one-story building of garage-like cubicles rented as neighborhood storage space to individuals, families and small businesses. Renters supply their own locks and can generally visit their cubicles as often as they like...
...with telltale pairs of red and blue spots running down its back. But looks are deceptive. Ever since 1869, when it was inadvertently turned loose in Massachusetts by a misguided French naturalist who wanted to cross the European gypsy with the silkworm to produce a disease-resistant hybrid that would eat virtually anything, it has been munching its way across the Northeast. As many as 30,000 caterpillars can infest a single tree, and each of them can consume five or ten small leaves a day. They seem especially partial to the majestic oak but also eat fruit trees like...
...then, Stripes plays on the old hybrid theme used in Buck Privates, No Time for Sergeants, and all of the innumerable imitations that followed: Misfit joins Army as last resort, misfit has several run-ins with the tough drill sergeant, misfit winds up proving his heroism and thereby gaining the sergeant's respect...
Miki's score uses nine Western instruments plus the koto (a kind of harp), samisen (a Japanese lute) and the tsuzumi drum. The composer manipulates a few simple musical motifs to achieve great emotional resonance as the themes recur; a sensitive, fragile hybrid that combines traditional Japanese elements with contemporary Western compositional practices, it must be heard in the theater to make its effect. Director Colin Graham, who commissioned the work for London's English Music Theater in 1979, staged the sometimes violent action subtly and with formal grace...
While old savings institutions are struggling to cope, the new money hybrid of the future is rapidly materializing. Neither a simple savings and loan nor a conventional bank, it is a combination bank, insurance company, brokerage firm and credit-card company. The mergers in recent months of the Prudential Insurance Co. with Wall Street's Bache Group Inc. and American Express with the Shearson Loeb Rhoades brokerage firm provide a glimpse of the shape of things to come in finance. With the help of computers, plastic credit cards and toll-free long-distance phone calls, these money supermarkets...