Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Timely Beeper, also known as False Alarm, is sold by the Sharper Image, a San Francisco firm that has a mail-order catalog and several retail stores. Since it was introduced three months ago, several thousand have been sold. The product was created by Eugene Grant, 67, the founder of Omega Contract Design, a California-based designer of aerospace products. The notion came to him one day, when he found himself restless in church. Says Grant: "There I was listening to one homily after another. Meanwhile I was dying to go fishing." When a fellow churchgoer's beeper went...
...this point I'd like it to be a look at the South, the history, where it is today, and where it's going," said founder Victoria J. Franklin '87, a native of Sulligent, Alabama...
Levinson said the show went on as planned yesterday despite the wind and rain because it was part of a celebration commemorating the birthday of Dorothy Day, the deceased founder of the singers' parent organization, the Catholic Worker. Day, a journalist, communist, and convert to Catholicism, established the organization 50 years ago in New York City, where a leftwing newspaper still bears its name...
...opponent, Sally Nevius, founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center (PMRC), argued that listening to obscene lyrics can be "extremely damaging to adolescents in the formative years," because many teenagers view rock musicians as role models. She also said that "parents need a tool" in determining what their children should and should not listen...
Also participating in the panel discussion was Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsberg, Boston radio guru and current general manager of V-66, a local music video channel. Thomas Radecki, a psychiatrist and founder of the National Coalition on Television Violence, was scheduled to participate but was unable to attend at the last minute...