Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aggressive and patronizing, St. Joseph's coach Gene Pingatore incessantly waxes nostalgic about Isaiah, as if to pound constantly into each boy's mind that Thomas was the one recruit that did what St. Joseph's wanted: he made it to the the NBA. In Pingatore's eyes, Thomas' fame and fortune lend testimony to St. Joseph's High School's everlasting committment to the underprivileged, untapped talent of Chicago's inner-city African-American population. Read the message from St. Joseph's administration to all basketball recruits: if you don't look good, we don't look good...
Sheriff Howard Wells, unfazed by his sudden fame, directed his team along parallel tracks. With the help of a new FBI computer system, authorities pursued every lead that came in, from psychics and crackpots, from well- meaning citizens as far away as the West Coast. A motel desk clerk in Seattle told police that a man had driven up in a car with South Carolina plates and dropped off a little boy. Police hoped it might be Alex. But it turned out to be someone else's child...
...week was ranked in the NCAA Division I-AA Top 25, has seen the bottom fall out of its rise to fame...
...ouster derailed, at least temporarily, one of the most influential and < flamboyant careers in recent Wall Street memory. Garzarelli won instant fame in 1987 for warning investors to bail out of the stock market just before the October Crash. While she never flatly prophesied the collapse, she did tell a television interviewer one week before Black Monday that she was no longer buying stocks or bonds and had put all her money in CDs. That was enough to secure Garzarelli a reputation for having all but predicted the 508-point market drop. Her stature increased in 1990 when she urged...
Over the course of Walter Farndon's long and productive years, the artist America knew in a variety of styles and associated with a variety of movements gathered awards and national recognition without ever achieving the international fame of the masters who influenced his work. For years, Farndon heightened his sense of the delicate harmony of pastel pinks, blues and light greens that modified the color scales made popular by such notables as Monet and the atmospheric exuberance of Renoir before darkening his palette to imitate the growing popularity of the post-impressionists...