Word: moving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opie would draw up plans on a napkin in the Mueller lunchroom and hand them to a buddy who knew how to draw blueprints. "We wanted a place big enough so that if my mother or Rhonda's ever needed, they could move in with us," says Opie. The house took five years to plan and nine months to build, but to sit in it with them now, to hear them talk about it, you wouldn't know they moved in 2 1/2 years ago. It looks new, feels new. And they look as though they haven...
When students graduate, they move on to 14 days of Sprint in-house training, where the advice gets more refined. Instructor Kelly Marcus tells them they can keep a conversation from getting too heated by using the "blameless apology"--to be sorry a customer's calling card was rejected rather than accuse him of not having paid his bills. And Marcus teaches Sprint-specific skills, like advising trainees with a shaky knowledge of geography to try looking for "Guatemala" in the computer's country listing if they can't find it under cities. She cautions against playing tricks on customers...
...process might move faster if it was clear who was running Japan. But after a century of iron-fisted control over the economy, Japan's vaunted bureaucrats have been unseated by allegations of corruption and mismanagement. Politicians have moved into the power vacuum, but their strengths are in vote getting, not policymaking. A legislative committee is now in charge of shaping plans to reform Japan's banking system, for instance. But Japanese politicians do not have big budgets for experienced staff. Even if they could plead for help from the bureaucrats, that might not be wise. Consider the diplomat...
...termites can chew their way through beams and plywood nine times as fast as their more laid-back cousins. Their colonies are huge, housing up to 10 million insects. They nest underground, in trees, in walls--just about anywhere there's wood and water. And they're on the move: long confined in the continental U.S. mostly to Louisiana and a handful of other coastal areas, Formosan termites are now happily chewing their way through real estate in 14 states, from Virginia to Hawaii, and causing property damage to the tune of about $1 billion a year...
...band is not a flashback, it's a move forward; it's not a reunion, but a kind of reincarnation. The Other Ones are headlining the Furthur Festival, which started on June 25 and will be playing dates around the country through the end of July. So far, the festival has proved to be one of the summer's most popular musical tours, selling out most stops...