Word: warwick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pedigree may have made it a little easier for her. As Walden notes, "Whitney comes from vocal royalty." Cissy Houston has been a fixture in gospel and pop for three decades. Dionne Warwick, who crafted a unique pop style before Whitney was born, is her cousin. Aretha Franklin, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is known as "Auntie Ree" around the Houston home. Clive Davis, the industry swami who revived Dionne's and Aretha's fortunes when he signed them for his Arista Records, spent two years preparing each of Whitney's albums...
According to the paper, a Warwick-based company, World Wide Electronics, has for months sold its substandard speakers from vans, intimating to consumers that its goods have been stolen and are available at fractions of their original prices...
...next couple of years, fans of Indian history are in luck, as one of the foremost India scholars is visiting. David A. Washbrook, of the University of Warwick in England, is at Harvard this year, and may remain here for up to two more years...
...become an economist: he did not read Adam Smith until he was 27, and it took him even longer to become a complete human being. In the first of a two-volume biography that promises to be definitive, Robert Skidelsky, a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick, England, illuminates sensitively and in great detail how the making of an economist finally coincided with the making...
...helped scientists calculate the length of a Uranian day. By detecting the changing radio emissions caused by the interaction of the field with the solar wind as the planet turns on its axis, the spacecraft established that Uranus rotates once approximately every 17 hours. The technique, explained Physicist James Warwick, can be likened to standing on a lawn and "feeling the water drops every time a sprinkler goes around." By tracking clouds in the atmosphere, Voyager discovered high-altitude winds moving around the planet at 220 m.p.h., more than twice as fast as they travel above the earth...