Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they? Imre Pozsgay, the most popular politician in Hungary and the leader of the democratic New Socialist Party, is a democratic socialist. So is Jens Reich, founder of the East German opposition front New Forum. And so is Zhelyu Zehlev, leader of the Bulgarian opposition group Union of Democratic Forces. And Solidarity, you will recall, is a labor union, not the Polish Chamber of Commerce...
...principal buyers of colonial furniture are American businessmen. But dealer Donald Sack, grandson of the firm's founder, believes that "if any more pieces break the $1 million mark, the Japanese may well get interested." As prices have risen, the buyers' profile has changed. "Doctors used to be our customers, but they can't afford the furniture anymore," says Harold. "Now our customers are educated Americans who don't survive on an income; rather, they have large sums of capital from the sale of a company or real estate." The most celebrated collector is Bill Cosby, who includes reproductions...
Parks, 47, has the salt-and-pepper hair and gentle, distracted manner of a day player in To Kill a Mockingbird. He was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., during the waning days of World War II. His father was the founder of Dick Parks and the White Swan Serenaders, and when not being what his son calls "an avocational musician," he pursued psychiatry as a colleague of Karl Menninger's. Young Van Dyke landed his first professional job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since...
...Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration." (Music...
...patterns of the entire globe. The research being done on the frozen continent cannot be carried out anywhere else. "In Antarctica we still have the chance to protect nature in something close to its natural state and leave it as a legacy for future generations," says Jim Barnes, a founder of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, an alliance of more than 200 environmental groups...