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...idea. It was 1980; they were driving from California to New Hampshire for a teaching gig. Finances were not good. "I asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up," Hunter recalls. To make the world better through "design mentality," Amory replied. That credo--shorthand for high efficiency, no waste--has made RMI a global consulting and research firm with an annual budget close to $5 million...
Jacqueline A. Brown, his assistant, still takes letters in shorthand while Hoffman dictates. And she types the manuscripts that he writes in long hand...
...Johns Hopkins researchers believe saliva tests could detect this 2. "Editorially speaking," in cyber-shorthand 3. Gore's gang, for short 4. BMW is selling this English subsidiary 5. Warts and all 6. Cpl. or sgt. 7. Bond portrayer Timothy 8. It apologized for having insured the lives of slaves 9. Conger, for one 11. Viviana __, winner of 39-Across's Science Talent Search Competition 12. Name on Prizms, once 14. Within earshot 17. Its House has okayed civil unions for gays 20. Star in the constellation Orion 22. Native of Brno 24. Word on either side...
...sales have jumped from $165 million in 1994 to an estimated $1.06 billion in 1999. Profits should reach an estimated $148.5 million. The company has expanded from 36 stores in 1992 to 230 this year. Its quarterly "magalog" has become a youth manual. In schools across America, Abercrombie is shorthand for popular. "They've shot out from nowhere to become part of teen culture," says Michael Woods, vice president of Teenage Research Unlimited. Last year kids ranked A&F as the sixth coolest brand--up from 11th, and passing Levi's and Nintendo--according to a recent TRU survey...
...content and gay characters--increasingly common accessories on shows aimed at trendy young adults--serve as a sort of coolness shorthand, bestowing hipness on their shows and audience, serving as a conduit to cred for the majority group, just as racial minorities have in the past. From Norman Mailer's White Negro we've gone to the Gay Hetero. As a side benefit, these characters allow networks to put affluent white boys on the air and call it diversity. (Indeed, the elderly animated pair Wally and Gus on the WB's Mission Hill are notable not so much for making...