Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their part, many women fully expect to do their share as breadwinners, though not necessarily out of personal choice so much as financial need. "Of course we will work," says Kimberly Heimert, 21, of Germantown, Tenn., a senior at American University. "What are we going to do? Stay at home? When I get married, I expect to contribute 50% of my family's income...
...this is an American auto factory, one as far out as its name: Saturn. Situated 35 miles south of Nashville in the small town of Spring Hill, Tenn., the Saturn plant and its 3,000 team members represent a grand experiment in $ American manufacturing. For General Motors, which has invested eight years and $3.5 billion to launch Saturn, the venture has a specific competitive goal: to build small cars as well as the Japanese do -- and then some. But GM's even more heroic mission for Saturn is to help the world's largest industrial company (1989 sales: $126.9 billion...
...told, Japanese companies have built 11 new assembly plants in North America, which employ 33,000 workers. The first was Honda, which manufactures Accords and Civics at two plants near Columbus, Ohio. Among the other newcomers are Nissan, which assembles Sentras and pick-up trucks in Smyrna, Tenn., and Toyota, which builds the Camry in Georgetown...
Other performers might talk a little about the bad times and all the frustrations; Brooks describes a scene that sounds like Jack Nicholson's famous freak-out in Five Easy Pieces. "Sitting in the parking lot of a damn fire station back in Hendersonville, Tenn., beating my head as hard as I could because I had snapped, and Sandy screaming at me to quit. I was crying, she was crying. I calmed down, and we went back home." Half a year later, Brooks signed with Capitol Records...
McDonald's has a new venue: the diner. After two years of planning, the fast- food giant has opened a one-of-a-kind outlet, the Golden Arch Cafe in Hartsville, Tenn., a small town northeast of Nashville. The 1950s-style restaurant, complete with jukebox, offers such unlikely McFare as lasagna, pork chops and Salisbury steak. The menu includes ordinary hamburgers, but no Big Macs or Chicken McNuggets. While patrons still queue to order their food at a take-away counter, the meal comes on ceramic plates, and is brought to the table by servers sporting bowling shirts...