Word: fame
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Although this was extended to any student who gave over $250, the committee targeted students for solicitation based on family wealth, fame and other factors and actively approached them for larger donations...
...diehard hockey fans out there, keep your eyes open next time you make the trip to Bright Hockey Center because it's not just an extra-curricular. It's your first opportunity to see some of the players that are destined for NHL fame...
...never considers The New Yorker a place to read about popular music, but last week's issue had a good article by Nick Hornby (of High Fidelity and About a Boy fame and possibly one of the best writers on popular culture) on that very question, and why people will universally learn to adore it because of who Radiohead are. Check...
...pages. The youngest of four children, growing up in Chicago, he decided that he would become a writer and proceeded, with relentless determination, to do so. His early novels attracted critical respect but little money; he was nearly 50 before Herzog (1964) produced his first big payday. As his fame grew, he attracted what seems like zillions of awards, including the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature...
HENRY BLODGET Obscure stock analyst rockets to fame in late 1998 with prediction that Amazon will reach $400 a share. TRUTH: Media buzz catapults the unadjusted stock price to $355 CONSEQUENCES: Amazon falls back to earth; so does Blodget...