Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hasty Pudding honors one female and onemale entertainer each year. Previous recipients ofthe "Woman of the Year" award have included"Alien" star Sigourney Weaver and "Pretty Woman"Julia Roberts
...says at the request of his customers, he's about to institute Fridays as singles' nights. Other upcoming events include a birthday party for Rocco (a pit bull-shepherd mix) and a wedding for Jorge and Kathleen (two humans). "It may go to extremes as with anything else," says Weaver, the Kirkland day-care proprietor. "But overall it's pretty great for everyone...
...efficient other than to raise public attention," said Joseph Hinsey IV, Weaver professor of business law. Hinsey said shareholder proposals rarely promote radical change...
Carnegie (1835-1919), the son of a master weaver in Dunfermline, Scotland, saw his boyhood paradise torn asunder when his father's skills were rendered obsolete by the power loom. The Carnegies had to emigrate to the foul Pittsburgh, Pa., slums when Andrew was 12. Quick-witted, shrewd and resilient, he survived a Dickensian adolescence that included working as a bobbin boy in a textile mill...
...great Baltimore manager Earl Weaver used to say his most important decisions occurred at the end of spring training when he had to pick his 23rd, 24th and 25th players. He knew it was the fit of disparate parts that made a collection of talents into a smoothly functional team. Stars were nice, but balance won ball games...