Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thinking Machines had sold its Connection Machine 5, described in trade publication as "a sleek black box with red blinking lights," to re- search institutions such as Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and Stanford University. The companyhas also been a pioneer in marketing its hugelypowerful computers to commercial customers such asAmerican Express and Dow Jones...
...dozens of mostly black and Latino students at the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center gathered for an open-air press conference in the school parking lot last month, Peter Ueberroth, the chairman of Rebuild L.A., lavished praise on executives of Japan's Pioneer Electronics (U.S.A.), who had just donated $600,000 to the Watts vocational school, created after the 1965 riots. "This company did this on their own," Ueberroth said, "because it should be good business for them to recognize the importance of the inner city...
Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman said Maskin has "been a pioneer in applying game theory to all different areas of economics...
...neuroses was too narrow. Nonetheless, Freud's ideas still have impact. Says Arnold Cooper, past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association: "You and everybody you know is a Freudian, and they probably don't even know it. We have all drunk in basic Freudian tenets." Freud was a pioneer in mapping the unconscious mind and theorizing how it could be reached and interpreted. He was the first to speculate that traumatic events of childhood could influence the way adults see the world. And he was the first also to postulate that patients in psychoanalysis, rather than the doctor, could direct...
Alba Ferry '42, a pioneer in the war effort, worked as an air raid warden in Cambridge...