Word: weitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike San Antonio Gardens, many life-care communities belong to large chains. The biggest provider is Life Care Services of Des Moines, a subsidiary of Weitz Corp., which has managed or developed more than 50 communities nationwide. The Mediplex Group, owned by Avon, has 19 facilities either completed or in the works, largely in California, Arizona and Pennsylvania. Marriott, which is best known for its hotels, has invested $150 million in three projects now under way in Haverford, Pa., Fort Belvoir, Va., and San Ramon, Calif. The company plans to build six more life-care communities by the early 1990s...
...ranking of the world's designer royalty, Lauren, 46, is the king of American sportswear, which in today's fashion parlance encompasses everything from swimsuits to semiformal evening wear. He reigns as the natural successor to Bill Blass and John Weitz, the first generation of U.S. celebrity designers. Lauren's chief rival, as coincidence would have it, comes from the same Bronx neighborhood. He is Calvin Klein, who has crafted an image of sizzling sexiness as singular as Lauren's aura of rich romance. But Lauren has kept ahead of his onetime neighbor in both popular and negotiable currency: Lauren...
...Richard Weitz '83, "Cold War Theories...
...Paul Weitz, 50, crew member on the 1973 Skylab mission and commander of the first Challenger voyage last April, on the early astronauts' descriptions of the earth as "a beautiful blue marble": "It was blue in the beginning, and now it's a gray planet. What's the message? We are fouling our nest...
...Bruce Weitz) thinks he's Serpico; everybody else thinks he's psycho. In charge of the carnage and chaos is Captain Francis Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti), a good, strong man breeding an ulcer while trying to do a tough job. At the end of every crisis-strewn day, each superb show, Furillo struggles home in an uneasy truce with his job, his willful woman (Veronica Hamel) and himself. Doubtless, he feels very much like Fred Silverman. Viewers will do him and themselves a favor by visiting Hill Street as often as possible...