Word: tracker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Civil War (which appears only as a distant commotion). Comanche raiding bands in Texas are beginning to starve because whites to the north have slaughtered the buffalo herds. The author develops a couple of minor figures we've met before, the fearsome chief Buffalo Hump and a quizzical tracker named Famous Shoes, who are among the best characters in the entire saga. A mad subplot involving a Central American sadist and a crazed New England scholar is good, chilling...
...message is a little late. Over the past two decades, a number of activist groups, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Council on Economic Priorities, and consumers themselves have persuaded corporations to behave as if they lived in the community. Says Milton Moskowitz, a longtime tracker of corporate behavior and co-author of 100 Best Places to Work in America: "There are a lot more 'good' companies. Originally, way back, corporate responsibility had to do with an external commitment to the community and philanthropic contributions. Now it's even broader." Says Craig Smith, president of Corporate...
GREEN BAY TRACKER...
Witnesses interviewed yesterday said DaSilva rushed out across the street into the path of pires' green Geo tracker...
That's the antiestablishment view of Hoeg's heroine, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her mother, a hunter and tracker, and the comfortable wealth of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Smilla knows both science and snow, but she is too rebellious to work regularly for the ruling Danes. She is at loose ends in Copenhagen when a six-year-old Eskimo boy she has befriended slips from the snowy roof of their apartment house and is killed. An accident, of course; but the boy, Smilla knows, wouldn't normally have been...