Word: movers
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...time abroad, Foster also focused on the importance of gesture and non-verbal communication, finding, among other things, that movement was intrinsically connected to culture. “It became clear that I was an American mover,” she says. I didn’t know how American I was on so many different levels until I lived in society where that wasn’t the way of moving, of being...
...words have altered lives, some quite prominent: Charles Colson was exposed to Lewis when he had the conversion that eventually transformed him from a jailed Nixon henchman to a mover in Evangelical politics and ideas; Domino's Pizza billionaire Thomas Monaghan has credited one chapter of Mere Christianity with his decision to sell his major assets and work to "populate heaven" via conservative Roman Catholic giving; the Lewis-abetted faith of National Human Genome Research Institute leader Francis Collins has proved that you can believe in both evolution and God. Other admirers have included Pope John Paul II, Greek Orthodox...
...into the field other than look at some job listings every few weeks. "I don't know anybody in the industry," he says, "but I'm hoping to find something that pays about 200,000 yen [approximately $2,000 a month]." In the meantime, he works as a furniture mover in Tokyo. Then there's Rika Saihara, 23, who recently quit a full-time job with a storage company because, she says, she didn't fit in at work. She hasn't had a job in three months, but because she is living at home with her parents in Tokyo...
Miami's People Mover also has glitches, but compared with Detroit's, it has been humming: it is just $2.6 million over budget. Detroit's project was fitful from the start. Eager to get rolling after frequent delays, the promoters broke ground in 1983, although only 3.6% of the on-site engineering had been completed. Not surprisingly, the system has been riddled with defects: 16 of the 173 horizontal guideway beams had to be removed and destroyed in 1984 because of faulty construction. Last month the contractor announced that an additional 14 beams will have to be replaced. Initially budgeted...
...project's supporters, foremost among them Mayor Coleman Young, say that with hotels and apartment buildings springing up at prospective People Mover stops, the system has already encouraged as much as $345 million in private development. They trust that when the construction quandaries are finally resolved, Detroit's monorail will emulate the success of similar systems in Toronto and Vancouver. George Pastor, president of Urban Transportation Development Corp.-USA, the company that is building the People Mover, claims the train will pay its own way within three years of start-up. "These systems are cheaper in capital and operating costs...