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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...plans to offer even more financial services. Says Nancy Barry, who will become the next president in September: "In the past ten years we have focused on access to credit. In the next ten years we will be helping women to find investors, to help them get more training and to develop larger markets." Not bad for a bunch of women who used to find themselves laughed out of the bank...
...head the party; Shevardnadze has been a friend for 25 years. If the party is to survive, it will require a leader respected within and outside the ranks. Shevardnadze's political reputation is virtually spotless, and his non-Russian background -- he was born in the Georgian republic -- may help keep independence-minded party members from deserting. And who would take Shevardnadze's place? Experts are watching Yevgeni Primakov, 60, who has been an important player on Gorbachev's foreign policy team since 1985; his was the new face at the table at last week's summit...
...with the original Renaissance man. Yet he has created what Da Vinci dreamed of and designed, but literally never got off the ground -- flying machines propelled solely by human muscle power. These and other unique MacCready airborne contraptions have made aviation history, and his innovative electric-car designs could help usher in a new era in ground transportation...
Random thoughts occurred: the $100,000 note he had co-signed to help a relative and now must repay. The news item about the value of the British pound rising to two dollars. The unclaimed 50,000 pounds Kremer prize awaiting the first person to achieve a mile-long, controlled, human-powered flight. "Suddenly this light bulb just glowed over my head," MacCready recalls. "Fifty thousand pounds was worth $100,000, which would pay off the debt...
...months later, with the help of his sons, friends and a few colleagues from AeroVironment, MacCready had assembled the first flimsy version of the Gossamer Condor out of aluminum tubes, piano wire, Mylar film, a propeller and bicycle parts. With a wingspan of 96 ft., it weighed only 55 lbs., and MacCready's two older sons, Parker and Tyler, were soon flying it for short distances, rising a few feet above the ground. After another ten months and many crashes and revisions, Bryan Allen, a bicycle racer and hang-glider pilot, successfully flew the Condor around the Kremer course, ensuring...