Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the organizers, a group of Texas business leaders, have already raised $200,000 for Hall of Fame programs. The nine inaugural Hall of Fame members include: two oilmen, W.D. Noel, founder of El Paso Products, and L.F. McCollum, former chairman of Continental Oil Co.; Robert J. Kleberg Jr. of the King Ranch; Jesse Jones, publisher, real estate developer and head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. during the New Deal; J. Erik Jonsson, former head of Texas Instruments; George and Herman Brown, who developed the giant Brown & Root construction firm; Retailer Charles Tandy of Tandy Corp.; and Arthur Temple...
...Every death is painful, but this one is especially brutal. It will not be forgotten." As the telegram from Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed independent trade union Solidarity, was read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...video-display terminals, issued its first public stock in March, its founder, K. Philip Hwang, was instantly worth about $500 million. Telerate, a company that provides securities price quotations electronically to money managers, went public last month, and a group of British investors watched the value of their 90% stake in the firm jump from $75 million to $740 million...
...memory: "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises to the Jewish people." If Wiesel's literary career had ended with Night, he would still have earned an international reputation as a founder of Holocaust literature. Once the novel was published, others dared to speak out: Nelly Sachs' laments were carried in O the Chimneys; André Schwarz-Bart chronicled The Last of the Just; Jerzy Kosinski described The Painted Bird. Wiesel himself was set free; his other books rushed into print...
...three men and three women who make up the Collaboration are hardly standup comics. Ellen Holbrook, the founder of the group, has modeled the Collaboration on a completely different brand of comedy. They don't work against the audience--they work with it. A native of Chicago and a long-time employee of the Second City Theater there, Holbrook has taken her cue from that city's improve tradition...