Word: jackrabbit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Idaho lawman's thoughts back to the frigid January day six years ago, when a quiet trapper named Claude Dallas ruthlessly gunned down two game wardens, instantly creating the Legend of Claude Dallas, and a major migraine for the sheriff. One recent day, as cold winds whistled across the jackrabbit badlands and swirled outside his cramped office, Nettleton kindled yet another cigarette, propped his scuffed cowboy boots on the desk and pondered the renegade Dallas, who's been on the loose since a jailbreak last Easter Sunday. Abruptly he blew out the match and turned, a flinty glare transforming...
Honda owes its jackrabbit start in the U.S. market at least partly to a corporate culture that fosters flexibility and innovation. The company operates with an openness that is rare in the world of Japanese business, where consensus and conformity are the rule. To boost communication, Honda has done away with executive lunch rooms and private offices. At Marysville, for example, egalitarianism prevails: all Honda employees, right up to Shoichiro Irimajiri, president of Honda's American manufacturing division, wear white coveralls with their names stitched in red lettering above the right breast pocket...
Baseball on a pair of ping-pong courts. Jackrabbit base-stealers, high-flying infielders and plastic ground. And two old-school, real ballplayers...
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Though the public embraced Jackrabbit and its hit single, "Romeo's Tune," 600,000 copies worth, Forbert remains glaringly suspicious of the media. Many reporters, early on, stereotyped him as "the new Dylan." The comparison was inevitable, given Forbert's harmonica and guitar-driven, folk-flavored style, but the singer resented being written into a corner. Moreover, with an eye on the kind of tragedy that came to Presley, Parsons, Williams and others in his line of work, Forbert seems terrified of the psychological fallout of fame...