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...brainchild of Google, which hopes to both foster online classical-music communities and cement YouTube's reputation as a repository for quality content. After dreaming up the idea in late 2007, Google approached prominent musicians and ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra and Tilson Thomas, a new-media pioneer in his work with the San Francisco and New World Symphonies...
...haven’t changed,” she said. “Our President transmogrified the land. But if he is to succeed, we have a lot to do.” BPLA Finance Director Crystalee J. Forbes ’11, called Ford a “pioneer in her own right, a leader who embodied the ideals she espoused.” Ford received the Charles Hamilton Houston Award for life-long leadership and service to the betterment of the African American community. She was the first African-American Chief United States Magistrate Judge and served...
...deficit can be accounted for in retiree health and pension benefits - which means that one way or another, the hundreds of thousands of UAW retirees are probably going to get a lot less health coverage. The outlines of a plan are likely to be drawn up by Bloom, a pioneer in the voluntary employee beneficiary association (VEBA) approach. In a VEBA, the union agrees to accept a cash payment to fund a new health-care system that trustees administer, thus taking future liabilities off the company's books. That's what happened at Ford, where the company negotiated a deal...
...idea how to buy a house from a bank, and many were too scared to try, so he decided to lead tours of the new economic frontier. He is a revivalist for this apocalyptic age, living an American story as old as the pilgrims and the 49ers and every pioneer who ever saw opportunity where everyone else saw only ruin. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...Director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Blumenthal was a pioneer in health policy, said Zeckhauser, who has authored several papers with Blumenthal and taught him as a student...