Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against Poland that have been in place since 1981, when the U.S. slapped on the measures to protest suppression of the Solidarity trade-union movement. What made last week's appeal unusual was its ten signatories. The list of prominent Poles included three Solidarity advisers and Lech Walesa, a founder and former leader of the now outlawed movement...
Delegates to the three-day conference reaffirmed such objectives as decriminalizing adult prostitution and abolishing red-light districts. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was a pressing issue. Said Margo St. James, founder of the National Task Force on Prostitution, a U.S. prostitutes' group: "People are too afraid to come out in the streets these days." But most of the women were irrepressibly optimistic. One wore a T shirt emblazoned with the message GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN, BAD GIRLS GO EVERYWHERE...
Most of the estimated 10 million to 12 million Americans who suffer from incontinence still feel that way. "We talk about rape or homosexuality but not about loss of bladder and bowel control," observes Simon's founder Cheryle Gartley. "It's the last of the closet issues." But the door is slowly opening. This month in Boston, researchers gathered to discuss promising medical remedies at a joint meeting of the International Continence Society and the Urodynamics Society. Encouraging, too, are recent developments, from newsletters to helpful products that greatly ease the daily burden of patients. Today's message: incontinence...
...reopened Willard Hotel a block from the White House seemed to find it all worthwhile. Shuttered for 18 years, the historic structure, which evolved from four row houses built in 1816, had been gutted and painstakingly renovated by Developer Oliver Carr. At a black-tie reception, descendants of Founder Henry Willard gathered for pictures under the massive chandeliers in the ornate Crystal Room...
...Wang, Harvard graduate and founder of Wang Laboratories, tells the story--with the help of writer Eugene Linden--of his rise from Chinese immigrant to self-made billionaire as if anybody could have done it. If you missed Rags, and this year's Fourth of July celebration, Lessons: An Autobiography is your chance to get in on the golden opportunity bandwagon...