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...guess what Rainwater did a few weeks ago, right after oil prices topped $129 per bbl. for the first time? "I sold my Chevron," he says. "I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything...
...time, fast-food chains were scarce in Russia. McDonald's, a pioneer in Russia, was a model, particularly for its cleanliness and sanitary procedures. "The quality in the Moscow McDonald's is really high," Goncharov says, adding that Teremok strives to match or exceed...
...Engineering, in fact, has long been considered a “dirty” science in homage to the archetypical gears, grime, and grease often associated with it. Thanks to innovators like Beranek, a pioneer of modern acoustics who played a key role in the development of the Internet, the modern digital age changed our very notion of what technology could be: invisible, pervasive, and as clean as silicon...
...pioneer in her profession, Manson’s career in conducting has taken her through territory previously untraveled by her female counterparts. She cites her experience conducting the Vienna Philharmonic—an all male orchestra that did not even allow women to become full members at the time—as a turning point in her career...
...Gates says his work with the BET president—who frequently returns to Harvard to discuss film—has convinced him that Hudlin is an “intellectual genius,” a “triple threat,” and a “pioneer...