Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impresario who engineered one of the most audacious corporate comebacks in capitalist history, left Detroit with a historic legacy. But no sooner had the Chrysler chairman stepped down in 1992 than the wheels began to fall off. His third marriage disintegrated. His 1995 partnering with Las Vegas financier Kirk Kerkorian in an abortive bid to take over Chrysler ended in a fiasco of lawsuits, not to mention accusations of treachery and avarice by his former colleagues...
...likes going to UHS for anything," Kirk D. McKeown '00 said...
...within the next decade we could be eating broccoli not just to make Mom happy but also as a way to deliver drugs that stave off infectious diseases or that treat various chronic conditions. "The idea of vaccinating people with edible plants is very new," says Dwayne Kirk of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Ithaca, N.Y. "But it's a lot friendlier than injections...
...decent and entertaining film. Returning to a classically moralistic Star Trek storyline, the movie follows the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they stumble upon a sinister plot to uproot an peaceful agricultural race, the Ba'ku and steal their planet. Just as in the days of Captain Kirk, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) must disobey a direct order from a Starfleet admiral in order to do what he feels is right...
...Gates, long derided for being too penurious, has put $2 billion into his two charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children in the developing world. It was just one of numerous conspicuous gifts made in 1998. Among them: Armenian-American billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian's $200 million in aid to earthquake-ravaged Armenia, and businessmen Ted Forstmann and John Walton's $100 million fund to subsidize private-school scholarships for inner-city students...