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...support by naming the quai leading toward the Palais des Nations the Quai Wilson. By the time the sprawling marble palais was completed in 1937, however, the league was so moribund that Geneva was sometimes ( referred to as the City of Lost Causes. (This experience inspired C. Northcote Parkinson to include in Parkinson's Law the thesis that the building of a new headquarters is invariably a symptom of institutional decay.) Very little remains of the old dream, except perhaps the peacocks still strolling serenely in the gardens that surround the palais...
Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho, is another near instant success. Founded by Twin Brothers Ward and Joseph Parkinson, the company started in 1981 with a cash infusion from an investment group headed by J.R. Simplot, one of the nation's largest potato processors. The following January Micron began shipping a memory chip that was smaller and more efficient than those produced by other U.S. firms. Sales took off, and the company went public with its stock last summer. Initially offered for $14 each, Micron shares rose as high as $40½ and are now trading for about...
...thing to draw Polynesian temples or the megaliths of Easter Island, as the Georgian William Hodges or Sydney Parkinson did, and quite another to imitate primitive styles as though their artists were as worthy of homage as Raphael or Ingres, which modernism did. The transition from one to another began with Paul Gauguin...
...doctors said the former champion had been suffering from a Parkinson's-like syndrome since 1981, and they agreed with Ali that there might be a connection between his condition and his career, which began when he won an Olympic gold medal in Rome...
...suffering from dementia pugilistica, a medical term for the often caricatured condition of the simple-minded bruiser who has taken one punch too many. "He is not punch-drunk," said Dr. Stanley Fahn, the neurologist in charge of his case. Nor, doctors insisted, is Ali suffering from Parkinson's disease, a disorder that occurs when the brain ceases to produce sufficient amounts of dopamine, a substance that helps in the transmission of nerve impulses involved with motor control. Having some of the symptoms of the disease does not mean that he has the disease...