Word: founder
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Individuals and corporations in West Germany have donated $5 million, with American contributions accounting for the rest, Walsh said. He said the primary donor was Werner Otto, the founder of the world's largest mail-order company, for whom the wing will be named...
Many organizations devoted to the arts -- and not a few corporations -- are badly shaken by the transition from a founding father to a new generation of more practical managers. The changeover is always bumpier if the founder's departure is forced. But rarely is the switch as onerous and nasty, or the repercussions so lingering, as in the boardroom battle that in 1986 ousted William Ball from San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Even today, Ball's successors seek to justify his removal by selling the theme of "renewal" to a still skeptical public...
...organizations approved on Monday, Prism takes its name from "the idea of having one object with a lot of different colors going through it," said co-founder Cathy Hinton...
...Individual neighborhood groups in this city needed to get together because individual neighborhood groups were losing votes on the City Council," said Jonathan Myers, a CCLN founder. "I thought it could be potentially a very strong organization politically in this city...
...thought and sometimes defiantly plain Jane in tastes. "What's better than meat-loaf?" asks Texas developer Walter W. Caruth Jr., whose wife (despite his $600 million) does all the cooking. Surprisingly few of Packard's subjects try to live up to their imposing annual incomes. Leonard Shoen, the founder of U- Haul, says he could comfortably retire on $50,000 a year...