Word: acclaiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost half of this brief 150-page book is dedicated to Ash's experiences in Prague, where he witnessed the formation of the opposition movement firsthand and up-close. His precise analysis of the Czechoslovakian refolution won him acclaim within opposition circles and is equally brilliant in hindsight: "In Poland it took ten years," Ash explains. "In Hungary ten months, in East Germany ten weeks: perhaps in Czechoslovakia it will take ten days...
...instance, the selection of Lowell in 1909represented a departure from theelective-oriented, laissez-faire educationchampioned by the previous president, Charles W.Eliot (Class of 1853). Although the popular Eliothad garnered almost universal acclaim for thesystem he had installed during his 40-year tenure,Lowell did not hesitate to implement drasticreforms...
Last week Metrocorp's Manhattan, inc., which won a 1985 National Magazine Award for general excellence and critical acclaim for its lacerating exposes of the New York City business community, announced that its July issue would be the last. The magazine and its top editor will be subsumed by Fairchild Publications' M, a clothes-conscious men's periodical. The new title: M inc. Manhattan, inc. lost more than $8 million over six years, says publisher D. Herbert Lipson. Its ad base was crippled when New York's financial and real estate markets went dry. The 1987 stock-market crash stole...
Crew cut, athletic and a war hero, Stewart Udall was a perfect fit with John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. As Secretary of the Interior, he won acclaim for expanding national parks and garnered headlines for leading officials on 50- mile hikes. As a lawyer-lobbyist, Udall stayed in Washington until 1979, when a new cause called him home...
MacCready's own thinking skills have served him well. He first won national acclaim in 1977 when his Gossamer Condor, a kitelike affair propelled only by a furiously pedaling cyclist-pilot, flew in controlled flight for more than a mile around a figure-eight course. For that feat, unsuccessfully attempted by dozens of others over the previous 18 years, MacCready won a $95,000 prize from British industrialist Henry Kremer. Two years later the same pilot pedaled an improved version of the ephemeral craft, the Gossamer Albatross, all the way across the English Channel to earn MacCready a second Kremer...