Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pittman, president and CEO of AOL Networks, was quick to declare victory. "We did the right thing for the customer," he said. "We are not about computers and wires; we're about a relationship with our members...
Communications breakthroughs increased the impression that Everest was accessible to nearly anyone. Climbers call home from the summit using satellite phones. They send E-mail. Over the past two months, socialite-alpinist Sandy Hill Pittman has been describing her ascent with Fischer's group on the Internet and throwing in remarks about books and recipes. One of her cyber correspondents inquired as to whether there were "any permanent markers at the summit. Flags, or plaques, or anything like that? A gift shop, perhaps?" Pittman didn't tell her new friend that the most enduring mementos on Everest's higher reaches...
Michelle Surette, 49, of Medford, formerly Michelle Pittman, received a suspended sentence of 2 and 1/2 years in prison and is required to perform 500 hours of community service and to make a partial restitution, according to the court documents...
...EDITOR" Sandy (Mrs. Bob) Pittman...
...Lesson Before Dying is, like Ernest Gaines' best-known novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, set in rural Louisiana. The year is 1948, and the particulars have a familiar ring. A young, black male is convicted of murder and sentenced to death on inconclusive evidence. The youth, called Jefferson, had the bad luck to be in a white man's store at the same time that two acquaintances attempted a robbery. They shoot the owner, but not before he fires effectively at them. Left with three dead men on the floor, Jefferson panics and helps himself to a bottle...