Word: prize
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...last month Pfeiffer figured he had reeled in one of the computer industry's prize catches in Gateway, the iconoclastic Sioux City outfit whose packaging bears the black-and-white markings of a cow's hide but whose burgeoning revenues are 100% filet mignon. Few know or even suspect just how close Pfeiffer came. The contracts were ready, and Waitt had the proverbial pen in hand before he evidently had a cathartic flash and rejected a nearly $7 billion takeover by Compaq. Gateway's current market value is $4.8 billion...
DAVID RUBINGER has been a TIME photographer in Israel for nearly a half-century, covering major wars (and not a few small ones) and documenting the lives of statesmen and ordinary citizens. Next week the Israeli government will honor his work with its prestigious Israel Prize for lifetime achievement. Perhaps his most memorable photograph is one of young Israeli paratroopers at Jerusalem's Western Wall in 1967, just minutes after fighting had ceased. It quickly became an emblem of Israel's stunning victory...
This year's class of fellows was selected from a pool of 98 applicants by a five-member committee, which included Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ann Marie Lipinski and Sidney Shanberg...
...already have a coach, Scott Anderson, who has proven he knows how to win and does an excellent job recruiting talent. So unless this year's players want to be responsible for sending a program that was shaping up to be a prize of Harvard athletics into the toilet, we cannot afford any more embarrassing losses like Saturday...
...prize for ideas improving world order is decided on the basis of originality, feasibility and potential impact, according to the Grawemeyer web site. It was first given...