Word: foundered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This isn’t going to be like walking on a pasture, it’s going to be like walking into a pasture,” said J.P. Licks founder Vince Petryk of the unorthodox plans for his new Mass. Avenue location. “They dry it and then it’s treated to be fire-proof. This is for all intents and purposes a grass-covered store....I don’t know if it’s going to look great or bad, but it’ll be different...
...University tends to offer more reasonable rents to its preferred businesses, which are local businesses and not national chains, so they actually contacted me about the space,” the J.P. Licks founder said. “That they see us as an asset to the entire Harvard community was actually very flattering...
...invited into that location, and it’s very unfair in my opinion to the time and energy we put into the Harvard community,” said Steve Herrell, founder of Herrell’s Ice Cream, which has a store on Dunster Street. “All of the sudden I have a major competitor staring me down the nose.” [SEE CORRECTION...
...country that will take him to Shanghai and Beijing, where he'll be addressing students at high schools, universities and international schools in China's most important cities. He'll also be meeting with some of the country's more prominent greens, like Zheng Shigrong, the billionaire founder of the solar panel manufacturer Suntech. It's all being arranged by members of China's Minister of Environmental Protection (Francis's teacher in San Francisco has impressive contacts...
...reportedly storing the goods with sympathetic locals and secretly distributing them by themselves. The junta doesn't want foreigners distributing aid in the delta, but neither does it feel comfortable with Burmese distributing it. "The government is scared that relief workers will get involved in politics," says a co-founder of one Burmese relief group...