Word: founder
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Douglas Kennedy 1967- --A founder of Third Millennium, which tries to engage young people in national issues...
Joseph P. Kennedy, founder of the Kennedy clan, wanted badly for his sons to conquer Washington. But he didn't much like the term politics, a word that opened too easily onto whole vistas of abandoned ideals and fishy dealings, something he was sensitive about as a businessman accused of bootlegging and stock manipulations. What Joe preferred was the more sanitary phrase public service. All the same, Joe's main notion of public service was the kind that gets you a seat in Congress and then a desk in the Oval Office. So when it came to choosing their lifework...
DIED. DAVID OGILVY, 88, sharp-witted advertising progressive, promoter of the soft sell and founder of Madison Avenue giant Ogilvy & Mather; near Bonnes, France (see Eulogy, below...
DIED. ERNST WYNDER, 77, pioneering physician and researcher who co-authored a landmark 1950 study linking cigarettes with lung cancer; of thyroid cancer; in New York City. Founder of the American Health Foundation based in New York City, Wynder most recently served on a federal panel created to evaluate alternative therapies to treat and prevent cancer...
...package that its followers believe promotes spiritual and moral well-being, and cures illness. Although many of its practices are simply a variation on the age-old Chinese Qi Gong belief, the authorities may be particularly threatened by the practitioners? fierce loyalty to the group?s New York-based founder, Li Hongzhi. The Communist party presents itself as the country?s supreme moral authority, and isn?t about to tolerate competition ?- particularly from a group whose leader believes computers, airplanes and other symptoms of modernity were introduced by aliens seeking to enslave the human spirit. Which is a problem...