Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...program, and Erdrich, also part Native American, was a student and later a writer-in-residence. While Erdrich won praise for her fiction, Dorris' most recognized achievement was his 1989 nonfiction book The Broken Cord. In it Dorris describes how, at age 26, he adopted a three-year-old Sioux boy, becoming one of the first single men in America to legally adopt a child. The child, Abel, had a constellation of mental and physical disabilities caused by the fact that his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy. Part memoir, part medical investigation into fetal-alcohol syndrome, especially among Native...
...many Sunday brunches, whose residents look on bathrooms as places you go in and do your business and come out--we have our own ballpark, next to the railroad tracks south of the State Fair Grounds, where our baseball team, the Saints, plays against teams from Duluth, Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fargo-Moorhead, Madison, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We wave at the trains as they go by, and we always have a good time regardless of what happens on the field. Between innings, a man walks up to the home-plate ump, leading a pig with a bag of fresh...
...Paul, America's 57th largest city, we're all right with that. Nobody who sits near me at the ballpark seems to feel personally diminished by living in a minor league city. We do not consider ourselves fundamentally so different from Duluthites or Sioux Fallsians or Fargo-Moorheaders. We all eat the same brand of corn flakes, and one size sock fits all. However, in Minneapolis, the 42nd largest American city, there are people who imagine it to be the Manhattan of the Midwest, the Paris of the Prairie. This is embarrassing to us St. Paulites, like knowing a small...
BORN: July 26, 1958, Madison EDUCATION: U of South Dakota, B.S., 1980 FAMILY: Wife, Stacy; four children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 761, Sioux Falls...