Word: pioneerism
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...identify individuals who are leading extremely well within their fields and to showcase them as models for others to encourage a higher quality of leadership in this country and internationally.” Of the 24 selected leaders, three are former Harvard students: energy pioneer Amory B. Lovins ’68; prominent economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76; and Linda D. Rottenberg ’90, CEO of the nonprofit Endeavor. Rottenberg said she was thrilled with the honor. She described the other leaders as “people who have inspired me” and called...
...Exit polling - surveying people leaving voting locations about the ballots they cast - debuted in the 1960s, as news organizations (and on a small scale, candidates) sought to gather demographic data about voters that could be used to predict election results. Legendary polling pioneer Warren Mitofsky conducted the first major exit poll for a network during the 1967 Kentucky governor's race and by the 1970s, exit polling had become an industry practice. But in 1980, NBC reported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter nearly three hours before polls closed on the West Coast, leading to a large-scale...
...relied less on artistic pretension than on grinding out product. In the next 20 years, Damiano put his name on another three dozen or so hardcore movies, none of which made much of an impact. Like silent-film director D.W. Griffith in the talkie era, Damiano was a pioneer whom new trends left behind. According to the local News-Press, he "lived out his final years in Fort Myers quietly, enjoying theater, attending art openings, appearing at charitable events and reveling, especially, in the accomplishments of his two children....artist and filmmaker Gerard Jr., and performer, Christar, with whom...
...times ego gets the better of Cheeta, who sees himself as the "true pioneer of simian thespianism." He dismisses King Kong's contributions in a few words of faint praise and neglects to acknowledge the numerous other stand-in "Cheetas" in the Tarzan movies. He's less than forthright about the biting incidents that were said to have ended his Hollywood career. And his drinking habits can't have helped either - only the onset of diabetes forced him to become a teetotaler, albeit an unrepentant one: "There's a little more dignity in sharing a couple of cocktails, some caviar...
...River Gorge's Bridge Day. To qualify for Bridge Day, a jumper will have to have already skydived or BASE jumped at least 100 times, have jumped within the past 2 years, and have completed a training course. But experience doesn't necessarily mean safety: in 2006, BASE Jumping pioneer Brian Lee Schubert, a 40-year veteran of the sport, fell to his death during Bridge Day when his parachute opened too late...