Word: ziff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Athletics on campus received a boost to their resources when Robert D. Ziff '88 honored the hockey team with a $2 million gift, endowing the position of the team's coach. And exercise buffs found a newly-stocked Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) beckoning in September, sporting 40 new pieces of cardiovascular equipment thanks to an anonymous donation of an undisclosed amount...
...life of an expatriate multinational employee was frustrating for Yan: China's economic prospects were growing so scintillating. He got in touch with a friend who was managing money for the Ziff publishing family and another who knew Texas-based investor Richard Rainwater. With these contacts, Yan attracted $52.5 million for a venture-capital fund targeting new businesses in China...
When it comes to performance, I'll be honest. I didn't believe the hyperbole I heard from the program's designers. But the industry buzz has been strong, with glowing mentions in Wired and other press sources. What hooked me, though, was the comment of Ziff-Davis's Jim Seymour, who claimed with astonishment that Opera could read 95 percent of all HTML pages more than twice as fast as Netscape or IE on any speed connection...
Eric Hippeau, chair and CEO of Ziff-Davis Inc., also presented a keynote address in which he discussed issues concerning privacy on the Internet, self-regulation of the industry and the recent initial public offering of Ziff-Davis on the stock exchange...
...Ziff, who concentrated in engineering and applied physics at Harvard, graduated from Cornell Law School in 1992. He is currently president of Ziff Brothers Investment in New York...