Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been a flashback to Charles Ryder's life before he went up to Oxford and met Sebastian Flyte. But the one chapter, titled "Ryder by Gas-Light," is all he wrote. Sissons believes that the author decided to abandon the project after discussions with Peters, the late founder of the agency and one of Waugh's close friends...
...funeral service will be held Saturday at 12.30 p.m. at Our Lady of Victories Church on Arlington Blvd in Boston. The mass will be said by R. Phillip Leplante, pastor of the church, and by Fr. Eugene Merlet, president and founder of the Pro Musicis Foundation, of which Loebig was an active member
...Alain Gomez, 43, a graduate of the elite Ecole Nationale d'Administration (E.N.A.) and onetime Harvard Business School student, who will lead Thomson-Brandt, an electronics and home appliance firm. A founder of the Socialist Party's vocal left wing, Gomez is probably the most ideological of the appointees. But his training and twelve years' experience as an executive at the newly nationalized Saint-Gobain-Pont-a-Mousson, a diversified glassmaker, give him impeccable business credentials...
...attempt to create a tin cartel is likely to founder on some hard economic realities. The metal is mainly used to plate the steel in so-called tin cans. Canning companies use tin because it resists corrosion that can be caused by acids often found in foods. Tin consumption, however, has been declining for years. More and more food is being packaged in sealed plastic pouches, and tin users are experimenting with such substitute materials as aluminum...
...Unfortunately, Scott was dispatched to that great city room in the sky when the actor playing him quit the role and the Rev. Pat Robertson, 51, the founder and spiritual leader of CBN, decided that Another Life needed an even more exalted spiritual emphasis. "There is a yearning inside of people for the ultimate meaning in life," Robertson says. "We hope to come up with programs that provide answers to that yearning. The problem is not just sex and violence on the major networks, it's the banality...