Word: founder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans, a group of 42 prominent Americans formed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, will publish twelve volumes of monographs, studies, essays and research papers that attempt to describe our national problems and, in some cases, offer solutions. The commission fell on hard times when, nine months after its creation, its founder moved to Washington to become Vice President. The panels designated to refine the background studies met rarely. Instead, the commission is publishing the background studies themselves, produced at a cost of more than $4 million...
Jumblatt is widely regarded as the "Mr. Clean" of Lebanon's tainted politics and a longtime influential kingmaker. The founder of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party, he backed Camille Chamoun for the presidency in a bloodless coup in 1952. Jumblatt soon turned on his protege for failing to enact economic and social reforms; in 1958 he was among the leaders of an anti-Chamoun uprising that disintegrated after U.S. Marines landed on Lebanon's beaches to restore order. Jumblatt has generally taken a strong socialist and pro-Palestinian line. Although he is nobody's man by any means, Jumblatt...
...Pataphysics," wrote its founder, Poet Alfred Jarry, in 1898, is "the science of the realm beyond metaphysics." It will study the laws that govern exceptions and "explain the universe supplementary to this...
...Harvard Yard there is a statue of the founder of this University. That statue was placed there by workers. The buildings of Harvard were constructed, the trees were chopped down, the land was ploughed up and foundations were put in by workers. Workers were here long before the vast bureaucracy of managers and administrators. When will we obtain the right to be heard, to be consulted on issues that affect our lives? When will we take our rightful place as members of the Harvard community...
...conglomerates grew so rapidly as Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. in the late 1960s, and few have come apart so spectacularly in the 1970s. Today the company is no longer a high flyer, and Founder James J. Ling, having created and failed with another conglomerate, Omega-Alpha, is fighting stockholder fraud suits. But thanks to Ling's penchant for corporate spinoffs, parts of the old LTV have emerged to flourish as independent companies. The one with the most exotic projects is Dallas-based E-Systems Inc., a company with a meaningless name, an ultrasophisticated product line and operations that extend...