Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotels to cater to families. By one estimate, as many as 10% of all business trips include children. At large medical and other professional conventions, up to a third of participants bring the family. In a highly competitive industry, hoteliers have found that children's services can help win loyal business travelers and lure future customers into the fold. "If we hook them now, we've got them later in life," says Hyatt Hotels president Darryl Hartley-Leonard. "This is going to become the way of life in the travel business -- offer a specialty product line for children...
...Uighur, in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when an aging Mao Zedong fomented social unrest in the name of class struggle. A family portrait shows Wuer, age 1, holding up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book. Throughout the rigors of the period, his father remained a loyal member of the party who spent years translating the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao from Chinese into Uighur. When thousands of China's intellectuals were forced out of the cities to work as peasants in the countryside, Wuer's father went willingly. The strain and exposure left his legs...
...they asked the 84-year-old craftsman if he could re-create the collection, nearly all of which was lost in the fire. Any other octogenarian might have hesitated, but not Nakashima. With the same kind of powerful understatement that characterizes his furniture, he agreed, remarking, "You've been loyal, and I'd like to help...
...nearly half a century, Nakashima has been producing unique furniture for loyal clients. In the process, he has also built a distinguished reputation. Fellow furniture maker Sam Maloof calls him the "elder statesman" of the postwar American crafts movement; Anne d'Harnoncourt, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, proclaims him "a national treasure." To further polish his renown, a warm and witty retrospective show of his work is now on view at the American Crafts Museum in New York City. "Full Circle" presents 43 of Nakashima's best pieces, from a battered 1944 teak coffee table to a masterly...
...nearly a half-century, distinguished woodworker George Nakashima has produced powerfully understated furniture for a loyal group of clients...