Word: pioneers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Clark, 53, a furniture-store owner and operator of a small farm, is used to being a pioneer. When he won a state assembly seat in 1967, he was the first black Mississippi legislator in nearly a century; today the state has 17 black lawmakers. Clark is courting both races, and he claims, "No one has ever run a campaign before that has appealed across racial lines like I'm running...
Grambling's football pioneer, Eddie Robinson, gets 300 wins...
...great industrialized powers. After prospering in the high-growth years of the 1950s and 1960s, the giant company in recent years failed to keep pace with developments in new products and manufacturing and steadily fell behind other electronics manufacturers, especially in the U.S. and Japan. Although it was a pioneer in developing a commercially successful tape recorder in the 1930s, AEG-Telefunken eventually lost its lead in consumer products such as color television sets and electric typewriters. It also moved slowly into the manufacture of computer components. The company was involved in early work on nuclear power plants, but these...
...doubled (from $75.9 billion to $141.5 billion), net farm income has fallen. Profits, which declined from $32.7 billion in 1979 to $22.9 billion last year, may dip as low as $16 billion this year, making 1982 the third dismal annual showing in a row. Says Thomas Urban, president of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a Des Moines-based seed company: "There is nothing for the farmer to be feeling good about...
...making. Not a truly innovative technology, Selecta Vision is essentially a phonograph that uses a mechanical stylus to play prerecorded movies. Its costly debut obscured the second type of videodisc: the infinitely more versatile laser-vision disc, designed for the videodisc player introduced by Magnavox in 1978. Manufactured by Pioneer, Sony and the 3M Co., the laser-vision disc makes flexible interaction possible...