Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the risks and the possibilities of failure, start-ups benefit the entire country, argues John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins Caulfied & Byers, a Menlo Park venture-capital firm that has helped finance dozens of new companies, including Netscape and Pixar. Doerr says Kleiner Perkins clients have created 150,000 new jobs in the past five years alone and have reinforced America's technological edge. "Some people refer to [IPOs] as a game," Doerr says. "But the notion that an entrepreneur can have a big idea and gain financial independence for his family is at the very heart...
...fervent admirer of the social vision of French lithographers, especially Gavarni and Daumier, he kept his satire for the illustrations he did for The Masses and other left-wing magazines. His painted world was more amiable, with its fleshy, rosy girls in dance halls or promenading in Washington Square Park--a Brooklyn Fragonard whispering to a Hester Street Renoir. Sloan saw his people as part of a larger totality, the carnal and cozy body of the city itself, where even the searchlight on top of Madison Square Garden, he wrote, "was scratching the belly of the sky and tickling...
...slim privileges that go with age. A 50-year-old man who receives an invitation to join an organization that offers vitamin discounts for the mature may resent it as a harbinger of that dreaded day when he takes his wife's hand during an evening stroll through the park and overhears some college kid on a nearby bench saying, "Isn't that cute...
...Model U.N. has booked about 600 of the Park Plaza's 977 rooms, according to Lory Davis, convention manager for the Park Plaza...
...this effort hasn't completely eliminated the need for the Park Plaza's own security staff. One of the hotel's guards, who declined to give his name, seemed unimpressed by the students...