Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hewlett-Packard. Though it failed to recognize the potential of Wozniak's proposal for a personal computer, Hewlett-Packard is highly regarded in Silicon Valley for fostering innovation. In 1982 Engineer Charles House was given a medal for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty." He had ignored an order from Founder David Packard to stop working on a type of high-quality video monitor. Despite the rebuke, House pressed ahead and succeeded in developing the monitor, which has been used to track NASA's manned moon landings and also in heart transplants. Although there were...
...team's only silver medal was brought home by freshman Jeff Clark (2-1) who wrestled in the 134 lb. class...
...notably low profile, passions roused by the shootings were running high. When New York police set up a special hot line to seek evidence in the case, they were deluged with phone calls backing Goetz; many of the well-wishers suggested that he run for mayor or receive a medal. Like many radio talk-show hosts, Clark Weber of Chicago station WIND has been swamped with pro-Goetz calls. "They won't let it go," he said. "There's an intense frustration out there, and it bothers me." Bob Grant, a contentious radio personality at New York's WABC, startled...
Tortorici said Koch's son Bill, an Olympic medal winner in cross-country skiing, had asked Coca-Cola for a sponsorship but was refused, adding that the two incidents may or may not be related...
Theodore Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize medal gleams under a muted spot in the Roosevelt Room. Two cannons, trophies of Admiral George Dewey's ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley") from the Spanish-American War, now proudly guard the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the Old Executive Office Building...