Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to experts. When I was eight years old, I told everyone the new mud flap with the rhinestone on my Schwinn was the prize for winning the biking competition at the Knights of Columbus. I was humiliated when the fact checkers in my neighborhood found out I'd only collected the consolation prize for slow-riding. Chastened, I stuck close to reality until I was trying to account for some dead spots between college and law school, and law school and life. Rather than admit to traveling aimlessly around Europe, I put down that I was studying French...
...annual Tournament of Champions, 15 previous Jeopardy! winners compete for a $100,000 prize. These 15--selected from the year's 400 contestants--have typically won four or five matches as Jeopardy! contestants in the past year...
...said that he has already made plans for what he will do with the prize money if he wins. "Harvard Medical School will be getting quite...
Price is also known as a scalp collector. That's why Dow Jones chairman Peter Kann is seeing his name in print these days. A former Journal reporter and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Kann is considered a brilliant journalist but a less than stellar CEO. While the company has seen 9% annual average revenue growth over the past decade, its 1996 earnings of $190 million are only a shade better than those of 1986, $183 million. While Cox calls Kann a "nice guy," he also says, "Kann is not the person who should be leading the company into...
...rare to see such tampering with a beloved classic--a play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony in 1956 and was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1959. But The Diary of Anne Frank has never been an ordinary work of literature; more like a communal rite of grief. The journal has probably conveyed the horror of the Holocaust more personally to more people than any other document. Yet some scholars have objected that popularizers of the diary have sanitized its content and distorted its message...