Word: spartan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prison is large enough to accommodate 40, which is about how many of Escobar's confidants are expected to follow their monarch into entombment, like Qin- dynasty soldiers. Escobar's older brother Roberto was among the first to surrender late last week and join him in his as yet Spartan quarters. There is neither heating nor air conditioning, the four large dormitories are equipped with steel double-decker beds, and the recreation room is bare save for a television set. Escobar will undoubtedly use some of his narco billions to create a more homey environment. Yet, for all the angry...
...most inmates, prison is a spartan experience. But not for Mexican drug baron Oliverio Chavez Araujo, 33, who has been linked to Colombia's Medellin drug cartel and has been incarcerated since 1986 at the state prison in Matamoros. After members of a rival drug gang shot Chavez in the jaw and nearly blinded him three weeks ago, his bodyguards staged a violent takeover of the prison; 18 people died. Once in control of the complex, Chavez continued to make drug deals from his cell, which was outfitted with cellular phones and a fax machine. Though state police ringed...
...designers, since it is essentially a basement with low ceilings and no stage. As a result, Mike Hill's lighting for Godot is pretty poor. Production staffer Marc Friedman built an unremarkable set, consisting of little more than objects arranged to conceal the pillars of the basement. Although the spartan set conforms to Beckett's stage directions, it contributes little to the production. The costumes are also adequate but merit no special attention...
...clinic serves. John worked part-time cutting firewood or driving a coal truck. The couple subsisted on food stamps, supplemented by the generosity of neighbors who often invited them over for dinner. Though the clinic is located in Gary, a one-hour drive over twisting roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched $10 bill in his pocket to buy gasoline...
While worried Sears directors were seeking solutions in Chicago, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, 72, was working in his spartan little office at headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. (pop. 11,000). Starting at 7 every morning, well-scrubbed, energetic employees scurry through the drab two-story building whose Formica desks and battleship-gray walls belie the company's immense profitability. Before long, a crowd of would-be suppliers begins forming at the front door: vendors carrying trunks and cases of products, hoping to interest Wal-Mart buyers in their toothpaste, panty hose, toasters and hundreds of other products. Wal-Mart buyers...