Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Domino's founder Tom Monaghan, 61, has always been a larger-than-life contradiction. He made a fortune pioneering a no-frills pizza-delivery business, then nearly squandered it on his own ostentatious life-style. He struggled for years to rebuild his empire and finally succeeded. Then last month he walked away from it all for the second, and presumably final, time by selling his family's 90% stake in Domino's for an estimated $1 billion to a private investment firm called Bain Capital...
...Pizza Hut high command. Taking its cue from Pizza Hut's own challenge to customers to find a better pizza, Papa John's twitted its rival for using tomato sauce made from yucky-sounding "remanufactured paste." To rub in more salt, Papa John's called on Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney, who sold the chain to PepsiCo in 1977 and now owns more than 70 Papa John's franchises, to declare in television spots, "Sorry, guys, I found a better pizza." Schnatter professes to be delighted that Pizza Hut responded angrily with a lawsuit, which he calls a publicity...
...however, the only thing he does. Last February Torvalds moved his family from Finland to Silicon Valley. He now pulls down a six-figure salary as a full-time programmer for Transmeta Corp., a top-secret, high-tech start-up backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The combination of Allen and Torvalds has fueled wild speculation about what Transmeta might be up to in its Santa Clara, Calif., skunk works. Is it building a new microprocessor that will compete with Intel's x86 chip set? Is it using, as some seem to believe, technology borrowed from visiting aliens...
Like martinis, Prada and the Tibetan freedom struggle, Pilates existed long before the celebrity-induced craze made it en vogue. Pilates (pronounced puh-LAH-teez) dates back to the first World War, when its founder, Joseph H. Pilates, was interned in England and forced to work as a nurse. Using springs and hospital beds, Pilates developed exercise equipment for injured and immobilized soldiers. He later brought the unique design to New York City, where he opened his first studio in 1926. The "Universal Reformer," "Cadillac," "Barrel" and "Wunda Chair," all resembling WWI-era torture devices, grew out of these original...
Today, the Pilates exercise system remains relatively similar to its founder's original concept. It is designed to lengthen and strengthen muscles, to increase flexibility and to rehabilitate injuries. It targets every woman's post-freshman 15 nemesis--the abdomen, lower back, upper thighs and buttocks. Promised Joseph Pilates, "You will feel better in 10 sessions, look better in 20 sessions, and have a completely new body in 30 sessions...