Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only was Arthur a leading figure and pioneer for minorities in sports and business, but also in the fight against HIV and AIDS," said former basketball star Magic Johnson, who has tested positive for the AIDS virus...
Shefelman says that the project was accepted by Harcourt-Brace because the editor thought that it would be popular with "young urban pioneer families." The prediction came true; the success of Victoria House encouraged the Shefelmans to write their newest book, A Peddler's Dream. The story is about Soloman Azar, a man who immigrates to the United States from Lebanon in hopes of finding his fortune. After many setbacks, Solomon and his wife Marie establish a fashionable department store in Texas (where the Shefelmans live...
...soft klutz who never exercised anything but his ego, Selznick was the son of one of the industry's pioneer pirates, a high roller who was quickly rolled over by better organized competitors. Thomson hints at a streak of madness in the Selznick line (one brother, Myron, a legendary Hollywood agent, died of alcoholism; another was institutionalized for many years). But in David's case it looked at first like genius. He was head of production at RKO at 30, had his own unit at MGM a year later, his own company four years after that. And he oversaw some...
Wali named the store Man from Atlantis after a long-ago television series. The astronaut outside the store represents the "science fiction pioneer of the future...
...world is coming to an end. Again. Edward O. Wilson, a pioneer of sociobiology and professor of entomology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, lists five earth-shattering events in the past half-billion years. The latest may have been a one-two punch. A meteorite six miles wide struck the Caribbean region 66 million years ago and set off intercontinental volcanic eruptions. The smoke and dust changed the global climate, killing countless plant and animal species...