Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of intimate look at another culture that not even the swankiest hotel in town provides. Live the way the locals live, meet their friends, buy bread at their favorite bakery and dine out at strictly native haunts. And the connections you make on a swap can turn into lasting friendships...
After nearly two decades of swapping, Jerry and Mary had their first annoyance this past summer with a couple from Italy. "They drank our wine collection," Jerry griped. Well, the Italian couple drank about 10 bottles, Mary corrected, but they didn't touch the "good" wine, and in turn had left Jerry and Mary some bottles and food in their home in Italy. Despite this, Jerry says he would gladly exchange again, only not with them...
...palatial condo you bargained for could turn out to be a weed-bound motel. Because that actually happened to William Rogers, he created a Timeshare Users Group website www.tug2.net) which now has more than 3,000 members who rate their shares via chat room and bulletin board. And even if you find the share of your dreams, "the trading is not all that easy, because you can't get the places during the times you want," cautions Joan Bennett of Indianapolis, Ind., who with her husband Dick owns a 13-week share in Hilton Head. "To be sure of getting...
Maybe every campaign needs a mystery consultant, a mad genius who can turn a candidate into something bigger than himself. Inside the Gore camp, that role seems to have fallen to Naomi Wolf, feminist, best-selling author and outspoken advocate of female sexual power, who has quietly emerged as one of the most curious forces inside the ever more curious Gore operation. Just exactly what Wolf does remains a puzzle even to many inside the campaign. But whatever it is, someone must think it is worth a lot. Sources tell TIME that since Gore 2000 set up shop in January...
...after nearly four months off for family time and recreation, Rubin has re-emerged for another high-wattage star turn. Smiling alongside Sanford Weill and John Reed, the co-chairmen of Citigroup, the 61-year-old financier confirmed that he would help them run the nation's largest financial conglomerate (1998 assets: $669 billion). Rubin's timing, as usual, is perfect. Just as the former Goldman Sachs investment banker climbs back into the spotlight, Congress is preparing to vote on a historic bill that plays legislative catch-up with Citi's 1998 merger with Travelers, the insurance outfit that also...