Word: pioneeringly
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Shoe repair-shop owner Kim Hyoung Hwan might be startled to hear himself described as a pioneer of the type President Kim extols. But his shop in the port city of Inchon is a good place to see some of the changes sweeping Korea. After losing his job as a purchasing manager at a now bankrupt equipment-manufacturing firm, Kim noticed people were spending more on shoe repairs to save money during the turndown. Demand was also rising as paternalistic companies cut back on the coupons for new shoes they used to hand out to employees as part of Korea...
...help improve those odds, eBay, Auction Universe and Amazon.com all offer some type of insurance and recommend that people use escrow services. Industry pioneer Onsale.com which conducts only business-to-consumer auctions, guarantees its products...
...physiological effects on the pulse and the sweat glands of humans. A number of psychotherapists are testifying that there is nothing like it for dissipating anger, mending marriages and banishing depression. Just a few years ago, says Robert Enright, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin and a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness, most secularly inclined intellectuals "trashed it; they said, 'Only wimps forgive.'" But now, Enright says, "psychiatrists, M.D.s, scientists, lawyers, ministers and social workers can all be on the same page. We are really on a roll...
Deciding who got those assignments took some creative thought. Elmer-DeWitt was determined to find writers who brought a special expertise to their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used...
...because he spent 21 years dancing on TV's Lawrence Welk Show [PEOPLE, March 8]. I think you actually meant to include him on your "Good Mouseketeer" list. Bobby joined the Lawrence Welk Show in 1961 and has always been proud of it. The show became a top syndication pioneer in 1982, and reruns can still be seen. Bobby's association with the show is definitely a "good" thing. No, it's more: it's wunnerful! KRISTIE BURGESS, MOUSEKEWIFE Los Angeles