Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think four years is bad, try 32. Dean Maher reported the record holder for longest grad school enrollment was registered for 32 years. Currently, there is a student who is in his 24th year of study, Maher said. He did not release names...
...Brendan A. Maher, referring to the enrollment record holder...
...Patent and Trademark Office registration number is tough to remember -- 4,942,516 -- and the holder of the patent, a Los Angeles inventor named Gilbert Hyatt, is a virtual unknown. But Hyatt, 52, has suddenly carved a memorable niche for himself in the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry. Last week, after a 20-year battle with the patent office, the tenacious engineer announced that he had finally received a certificate of intellectual ownership for a single-chip microprocessor that he says he invented in 1968. The announcement sent shock waves throughout the computer industry, which could be forced to pay Hyatt...
...played for him at a White House correspondents' dinner in 1944. The President was on the dais with his big cigarette holder. Every time I told a joke, everybody would laugh and then look to see how he had reacted. He would go up and down with his holder...
...Cornell Woolrich story, It Had to Be Murder, on which the movie was based. After Woolrich's death, his estate renewed the story's copyright. In the majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the film could not be shown without permission from the current holder of the copyright, even though Woolrich had promised to renew his agreement with the filmmakers. The winner in the case was Sheldon Abend, a literary agent who bought the copyright from Woolrich's estate for $650 in 1971. Since 1983, Rear Window has grossed more than $12 million for its owners...