Word: mentor
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...enormous success, the two visionaries from rural Michigan became friends and business partners. Ford asked Edison to develop an electric storage battery for the car and funded the effort with $1.5 million. Ironically, despite all his other great inventions, Edison never perfected the storage battery. Yet Ford immortalized his mentor's inventive genius by building the Edison Institute in Dearborn...
...addiction to prescription pain killers led to his fatal skiing accident. (The autopsy showed no evidence of drugs or alcohol.) In addition to commenting on her dating and hairstyles (above at last week's impeachment hearings and below in March), reporters noted that Bono last month urged her political mentor Newt Gingrich to resign. What ever happened to Stand by Your...
...excellent colleague, teacher and graduate student mentor," Bennett said. "His positive attitude is infectious, and his scientific standards are rigorous. Plus he's a hell of nice guy and a good friend...
...although intense, allows Trilogy to mentor its new hires with its top executive "stars," including President and Founder Joe Liemandt. The training and working experience are so substantial they cause new hires to reconsider their plans after Trilogy...
Benton became a surrogate big daddy to replace Pollock's own woundingly absent father. Thus the future avant-gardist had for a mentor a man who hated abstract art. But when Pollock came under Benton's tutelage, he wasn't aiming at abstraction. Benton's way of composing, with its heftily twisting figures and buckling, scoop-and-bump space, was based on 16th century Mannerism--Midwestern El Greco and Tintoretto; he even adapted the Mannerist device of reducing the figures to geometrical dolls, sometimes modeling them in clay. This vehemence, locked up as a system, appealed to Pollock...