Word: foundered
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Many things may have hanged at. The Globe since Gen. Charles H. Taylor, the paper's founder and first publisher (1883 to 1922) penned those words. But the 620,000-circulation morning daily still gives children and their families some sunshine every Christmas time with its Globe Santa charity...
...past 20 years. Bo Hi Pak. a onetime South Korean army officer, has been the trusted adviser of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, spiritual leader and founder of the Unification Church. One evening last September. Pak, who has been acting as leader of the church while Moon serves an 18-month sentence in federal prison for tax evasion, was abducted outside a Manhattan hotel. Blindfolded and handcuffed, Pak was driven 80 miles to a house in Slate Hill, N.Y., where his kidnapers tortured him with electric shocks. Two days later, Pak's abductors ordered him to fly to Washington...
...founder of Investors Overseas Services nearly three decades ago, Bernie Cornfeld presided over a $2 billion financial empire that spanned the globe. Enter Robert Vesco, who in 1971 managed to gain control of the company before being charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with looting IOS of $224 million. Now Cornfeld, 57, has resurfaced with his own vitamin company, called Better Living Enterprises. The vitamins, he claims, will help poor sleepers and the overweight and even boost people's sex drives. Waving away suggestions that the virtues of his vitamins might be just a bit overstated, Cornfeld predicts...
...grateful that we are able to be here," said Fred Cohen, son of founder Sheldon Cohen. He added that the Perini Construction Company and the federal government, which funded the project, "accommodated us by moving us several times...
Ironically, the first of those teachers, and the founder of a faith now known for its warlike strength, was a gentle sage who preached a code of pacifism. Declaring "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim," Guru Nanak forged a path between the two warring religions, drawing followers from both, when he created Sikhism in Punjab at the end of the 15th century. Two centuries later, however, Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people...