Word: pioneering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game was never as close as the final four-goal margin. Harvard put the game away early with a balanced scoring attack. The ball stayed in the Post defensive end for nearly the entire first half, as the experienced Crimson offense unleashed a fullscale assault on beleaguered Pioneer goalie Lou Jannotte...
...case method is a crackling experience of involvement by both students and professors," says Walmsley University Professor C. Roland Christensen, widely regarded as the pioneer of the case study method at the B-School. The system, he says, represents "an important part of our total mission to do an excellent job of teaching...
...pioneer of stockings-on-the-run is an ex-secretary in London named Sophie Mirman, who opened her first Sock Shop in 1983 at the busy Knightsbridge Underground station. Her philosophy: "Socks should be as easy to buy as a newspaper." Since then her Sock Shop chain has expanded to 118 outlets in Britain, France, Belgium and the U.S. Her most famous customer: Princess Diana...
...different set of issues arises when reporters do gain access to victims. Jacqui Banaszynski, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, won a Pulitzer Prize last year for a lengthy series about a gay couple dying of AIDS. Privy to the most intimate details of the lives of both the men and their families, Banaszynski had to balance her sense of loyalty to her subjects against her desire to make the series as truthful as possible. "I would not print information so private that it would harm without enhancing," she says...
...pioneer and chief practitioner of this new art is Norman Whan, a former insurance telemarketing consultant, who runs a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization called Church Growth Development International. Whan, 46, a Quaker, specializes in starting up brand-new churches, using a target of 200 members as the number needed for a self-sustaining congregation. "When you ask 20,000 people," explains Whan, "you can get at least 200 to do anything." In addition to canvassing, Whan has conducted "The Phone's for You!" seminars for 2,000 Protestant congregations from Canada to Florida (cost per attendee: $295). Another...