Word: foundered
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...right by the environment have a bank that will help them. Liu is financing environmentally savvy, resource-efficient ventures at the nation's first commercial bank aimed at green businesses, New Resource Bank in San Francisco. "Sustainability has become a major market force," says Liu, 41, the bank's founder and vice chairman...
LARRY PAGE, Google co-founder and president, in a statement for an April Fool's Day prank in which a link posted on Google's home page connected to a site that supposedly offered consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems; Google called the program "Toilet Internet Service Provider...
...Though he abandoned medical school during World War II, don't discount the healing powers of Jacques Courtin-Clarins. The founder of European cosmetics giant Clarins ditched the doctor dream to soothe Paris' war wounded as a masseur and found fans with his home-brewed treatment oils. Named for a character he portrayed in a high school play (he took the name as his own in the 1970s to celebrate his success), the family-owned company helped popularize therapeutic, plant-based skin-care products and grew to include salons around the world...
...perhaps, Keret wants to show how complex life gets. He should know: he was born in 1967, the year of the Six Day War, to two Holocaust survivors. His sister is an ultra-orthodox former settler, whose beliefs forbid her to read his work. His brother is the founder of Israel's movement for the legalization of marijuana and a member of the super-left-wing Anarchists Against the World...
...reactionary and hostile forces against the government of Vietnam," the prosecutor told the court. The defendants had no lawyers present, but at least one didn't deny the charges. "For the country and the people of Vietnam, I will continue to fight for democracy," said the Progression Party co-founder Nguyen Phong, 32. Soon after that, the audio feed from the courtroom was abruptly cut off. Phong was later handed a six-year sentence. (Two other defendants were given probation and Father Ly's assistant, Nguyen Binh Thanh, was sentenced to five years...