Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese law. Undaunted, DuPont plans to invest $16 million in a joint venture in Shanghai in 1995 that will manufacture equipment for integrated circuits. But this time the Delaware-based giant is trying to be smart about reducing its exposure to theft: in his August trip to Beijing, chairman Edgar Woolard lobbied Chinese President Jiang Zemin to safeguard the patents of manufacturers...
...much to the story -- flivvers and floozies, irate wives and an occasional perforated lawman, plus a misty death scene for each of the heroes. The novel's true subject, to the lighthearted extent that it has one, is mythology itself. With the headline-hungry FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover promoting Floyd to No. 2 and then No. 1 on his new invention, the Most Wanted List, Charley's life becomes a legend before he is finished living...
...EDGAR MITCHELL said his experiences in space provoked a "blissful alteration of consciousness." Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Sausalito, California, which pursues such topics as ESP and the mind. On a more earthly plane, in 1984 he was the target of a paternity suit by a former Playboy bunny...
...fight over 3 1/2-year-old "Baby Richard," who was ordered taken from the adoptive parents he has lived with since he was four days old. Illinois judge James D. Heiple's decision to give the child to his biological father (who has never laid eyes on him) outraged Governor Jim Edgar, who wondered "how the justices who prevailed in this case will be able to sleep at night." The Illinois Supreme Court delayed the order to give the boy to his biological father until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether it will hear the case...
...Edgar M. Bronfman...