Word: scions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...answer characteristic of the affable Pieroth, 55. A scion of West Germany's pre-eminent family of wine merchants, Pieroth is a model of can-do spirit. Despite the immensity of the task before him, he is confident that, once unshackled, the East Germans will build for themselves a vibrant new economy just as surely as their West German counterparts did after the devastation of World War II. "In the coming years, we can harness the idea of keeping up with the Joneses," he says. "The East Germans want to show the West Germans that they can do just...
Kletzsch says he grew up the scion of an established and wealthy Milwaukee family and came to Harvard "to become a composer." He left college to gain practical musical experience in a music conservatory in Milwaukee and returned five years later to finish his undergraduate. education and get a Master of Arts in Music...
...victory marked an extraordinarily quick rise by Collor, scion of a wealthy political and publishing family in Alagoas. His father Arnon de Mello, a federal Senator, earned a bizarre niche in Brazilian history in 1963 when he shot a fellow legislator to death on the Senate floor. The elder Collor served several months in jail before it was decided that he had acted in self- defense...