Word: travelers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world is in danger of losing the Sun Crest peach. Extravagantly juicy with a nectar that perfectly balances acids and sugars, it boasts a yellow skin with an amber glow. But because it is soft and easily bruised, it is unattractive to supermarkets, which prefer hearty produce bred to travel well and languish indefinitely. Grown in California's San Joaquin Valley, the Sun Crest is picked only in midsummer and sold primarily at roadside stands...
...alive with wit and observation and sparks of inspired nastiness, it's thrilling to pick it back up, for exquisite set pieces on the man who introduced "female butt cleavage" to network TV, on the four meanings (three of them ironic) of the term "your friend," on corporate travel (flying business class is "a protection racket--you pay extra, or you just might get roughed up in coach...
...Beard, 52, is in the hotel business, so it's almost axiomatic that he has sympathy for the travails of the traveling--or moving--businessperson. Especially if it's him. Last April he took a job as vice president of operations for Regent International Hotels, a chain of luxury hotels owned by the Carlson Cos., a travel and restaurant conglomerate based in Minneapolis, Minn. The switch meant a move from Dallas to Minneapolis for himself, his wife Barbara and daughters Cassandra, 8, and Lauren, 10. Beard likes the new employment opportunity, but as a veteran of 14 previous employment relocations...
...asking for ways to soften the new landing? Right now, the sky may be the limit. "If you are fulfilling a big need in a new location, then go for it and ask for everything you want," recommends Dennis Taylor, senior consultant with Runzheimer International, a travel-management consulting firm in Rochester, Wis. If you don't get it all, you may still get more than you expected...
...could spend the least. On Monday, in the first significant decision applying brakes to that race, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that there are some constitutional limits beyond which the government cannot go. By a 7-to-2 vote, the Justices ruled that the people?s constitutional right to travel prohibits states from paying lower benefits to new residents than to longtime residents. The practice, which had been authorized by Congress in 1996, and whose intent was to let states keep out the needy they do not want from other states, strikes down the welfare residency rules of California...