Word: posterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Energiya, the state corporation that built Mir, created a subsidiary to raise hard currency. That's when PETER LLEWELLYN, 51, head of Microlife, a Minnesota company specializing in waste disposal, heard his calling. Paunchy and with a graying beard, he is not quite the image of a NASA poster boy. But Energiya claims he's got the right stuff, that he's fit to fly and is a licensed pilot. Llewellyn, however, conceded to the Moscow Times that he's 112 lbs. overweight and, though he was certified to pilot a Cessna in 1976, has not flown a plane...
Tracy Flick kneels over her daisy-decorated sheets (which go perfectly with the rainbow-laden inspirational posters on her room walls), hands clasped together earnestly, praying--desperately pleading--for God to tamper with the minds of her high school classmates. It's a fitting conclusion to a vehemently ferocious, unfailingly smug and of course, utterly merciless campaign. Tracy Flick is the poster child for ambition...
...second floor of the Islamic Society ofBoston (ISB), a Kosova Task Force poster urgesMuslims to allot five minutes each day for helpingthe Kosovar refugees. It lists activities,including calling one's congressperson and prayingfor those in Kosova, that anyone can do. Nearby,another poster from the Holy Land Foundationencourages Muslims to donate money to buynecessities for the ethnic Albanian refugees...
...protestors then taped a poster reading "Contract Now" over the door to the central administration offices. After they were informed that the poster would be ripped down eventually, the protestors removed...
...NASDAQ dropped 5.6% on Monday, wounded highflyers regained their strength for the umpteenth time. "Tech and Internet enthusiasts are hard to keep down," observes Byron Wien, analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. So AOL, which went from $167 to $116 in a blink, was quickly back at $146. Amazon.com poster child for Internet speculation, shot from $184 to $159 to--gads!--$210. With lightning speed the reversal was reversed, and what had been shaping up as a seismic shift in the market turned out to be just a sneeze...