Word: savings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speculative plans of the potential buyer, Frank Fodera, call for an apartment building which would still preserve the "historical" exterior--as its lobby. When those plans were revealed in late January, "Save the Chapel" signs went up in church windows and a bevy of petitions, meetings and lawsuits sprung out of the surrounding community...
...Driver was a first-year student at Waikato University in Hamilton. He also worked in the Pak N' Save grocery store in town as a stock clerk. This morning he woke up late and wanted to have a quick surf in Raglan before work--his afternoon shift began in three hours. But he said he might blow off his job if the waves in Manu Bay were massive. To squeeze in surfs, he and his mates would sometimes drive the length of SH23 six times in the same...
...female tennis player ranked one spot below Kournikova?) The soccer team is a group of successful (key word, that) women going an extra step and having some fun--not to mention making some profit--with America's sexual obsession. Michael Jordan did this, certainly, in most of his advertising (save the Tweetie Bird spots). In other realms, so did Madonna and Ricky Martin--on paper, singers--and even celebs like the ever shirtless Elizabeth Wurtzel and Sebastian Junger--on paper, scribes...
Suddenly ecotourism is the new global orthodoxy--a panacea to save threatened environments, address poverty and salve the conscience of well-heeled travelers, as well as satisfy a growing thirst for closer contact with nature. Groups such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, Earthwatch and Discovery Initiatives now share the jungle and savannah with more conventional operators. Major travel companies, hotels and airlines have jumped on the bandwagon with scores of environmentally friendly initiatives. "Consumers are currently very sensitive to the environment, and you've got to take that into account," says Jacques Maillot, CEO of Nouvelles Frontieres, France...
...them are getting help. Three years ago, when the U.S. National Park Service was ready to tear down an aging ice-hockey rink in a lower-income section of southeastern Washington, D.C., some parents from more affluent communities banded together and raised enough private and corporate dollars to save it. Today Fort Dupont Ice Arena provides free skating instruction to some 2,500 local kids, with its $500,000 annual budget funded through admission fees, fund raisers and sale of ice time for practicing hockey teams from private schools and local colleges. Says rink general manager Fred Wilson: "The greatest...