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Little wonder that the market in 2004 generated $1.5 billion in sales, triple 2003's, according to Ragatz Associates, a consulting and market-research firm in Eugene, Ore. That kind of volume is beginning to pay off for the hospitality industry's big guns--Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt, among others--which have bottle-fed the fractionals concept for more than a decade. The motivation? Financing expensive hotel projects is easier and far more lucrative this way. "The time-share business has been a very good business for these companies because it tends to have high...
...Ford begins 11 years of construction of the Rouge complex in Dearborn, Mich., which becomes an icon of American industry, an ore-to-assembly, completely vertical enterprise
...parents had given her?May?in favor of her middle name, which is Japanese for bright. "I started using it because I wanted people meeting me to have to?for one minute?struggle or acknowledge I was a little different," says Heshiki, 31, now a lawyer in Portland, Ore...
MAGUELONE IVAL Corvallis, Ore...
...health clubs or the cachet of martial-arts dojos. They're sweatshops, where young men who don't usually have many prospects in the wider world struggle to make the most of whatever it is that boils in their blood. For 10 years, Lommasson, a photographer based in Portland, Ore., has traveled around the U.S. and Canada, poking his camera into the places, like the Fraser Arms in Vancouver, below, where young fighters train. He has plainly got to know them and their coaches well enough to understand the drama and lowdown splendor of their lives. Both...