Word: foundered
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...JOHN WOOD were still running a business, he would be looking back on a remarkable year of growth. The founder and chairman of the charity Room to Read, Wood and his associates have doubled the number of schools and libraries Room to Read sets up in underprivileged Asian countries to nearly 2,200. Success doesn't depend on throwing money at the problem. Instead, Wood seeks to make the community a stakeholder by encouraging local contributions. For example, in Nepal, families brought 50-kg bags of grain which were sold off, raising $1,500 to add to Room to Read...
...example, David M. Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, contributed $10 million to the Kennedy School of Government last fiscal year. Rubenstein is a parent of an undergraduate and is married to a graduate of Harvard Business School (HBS), but is not an alum, Rapier said...
...former Tyco executives entered the courtroom Monday with one-time WorldCom Chairman Bernard Ebbers already having been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled his company (which has emerged from bankruptcy as MCI) and Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas having been sentenced to 15 years in prison for looting and fraud at his company. His son and former finance chief, Timothy Rigas, got 20 years...
...Pilgrims of Taizé Brother Roger, the ecumenical theologian who was killed last month [MILESTONES, Aug. 29], was the founder of a spiritual center committed to religious unity at Taizè in France's Burgundy region. Taizè's simple form of worship influenced churches the world over. In an April 29, 1974, article, we reported on how the monastic community attracted thousands of young people...
...razing of Fallujah, the depravity at Abu Ghraib prison and the self-righteous obscenity at Guantánamo Bay? And how about the abandonment of the desperate hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi? In Iraq, limitless U.S. resources are deployed, while at home poor Americans, thirsty and starving, founder in toxic effluent. All around the globe, people are watching, incredulous, as the Bush Administration displays its unique ability to turn a natural disaster into an issue of law and order. It can be only a matter of time before criticism of the federal response to Katrina is declared unpatriotic...