Word: amon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the imaginary tract that Richard Avedon has now populated. Over a five-year period, at the behest of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Avedon took hundreds of portraits throughout the West. Using an eight-by-ten view camera on a tripod, he photographed people at rodeos in Montana, oil fields in Oklahoma and a "rattlesnake roundup" in Texas. He picked more than 100 of those shots for a traveling exhibition titled "In the American West," which began at the Amon Carter earlier this year and has now opened at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. A condensed...
...their eagerness to enter a glamorous industry, some firms began developing new products without thinking about what customers would buy them. Says Cetus Corp. Vice President William Amon: "There are far more technical opportunities than there are sensible market opportunities." Other new ventures ran into quality control problems when they mass produced drugs that were being made only in a laboratory test tube. Notes Genentech President Robert Swanson: "A number of companies have severely underestimated the enormous effort and specialized skills required to take a technical breakthrough and put it in a bottle ready for market...
...through with Harvard, I would not give them another red cent," said Ruth Carter Johnson, a Visiting Committee member and chairman of the board of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas...
...candidates are equally matched in budgets ($500,000 apiece), and each cites polls to show that he can win. But local political experts are betting on Wright, if for no other reason than his reputation as the most powerful Texan in Congress. Says Fort Worth Star-Telegram Publisher Amon G. Carter Jr.: "I don't agree with the way Jim Wright votes half the time, but I know how important he is in Washington, and he's the only thing we've got up there...