Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Huntsman Sr., a Salt Lake City industrialist who lost both parents to cancer and has survived two bouts himself, has donated $100 million to the University of Utah to study the disease. The gift is believed to be the largest ever to medical research. Health care writer Janice Castro reports that Huntsman, a Mormon, hopes the University can leverage a unique resource of the Church to get at the genetic roots of cancer. "Mormons have the most sophisticated genealogy database in the world right there in Salt Lake City," she says. "For years, they have collected the birth and death...
...opening statement tuned precisely to the nation's anger, the prosecutor in theSusan Smith casesaid the Union, S.C., woman "looked this country in the eye and lied" aboutdrowning her two sons-- all so that she could continue seeing a wealthy industrialist's son. As tears filled Smith's eyes, Keith Giese suggested that her motivatiuon was horrifying simple: "This is a case of selfishness. This is a case of I, I, I, me, me, me," he said, "That's the bottom line in this case." In the defense's opening statement, lawyer Judy Clarke painted Smith, 23, as a troubled...
...truism that Hollywood is "a relationship business" is almost a joke. But to an artist-industrialist like Spielberg, the meeting of eyes, minds and enthusiasms is crucial. Iger had tried unsuccessfully to persuade Katzenberg last year to help him run the network, and he was one of the first to call when SKG was announced. Karma came into it too. It happened that at a White House dinner in October, when the three moguls sealed their agreement to become the Dream team, Iger was sitting on one side of Spielberg, Boris Yeltsin on the other (Yeltsin...
...Representatives was set to act on the treaty, Gingrich blocked a vote until after the November elections. He juggled several excuses for his U-turn in public, but his chief explanation in private was that Ross Perot made him do it. Gingrich lamented to Democratic leaders that the Texas industrialist was bombarding him with telephone calls last Tuesday. Apparently that was enough for Gingrich to cave in. "I know," Gingrich told the leaders afterward, "that there's some distrust on your side about me." That, a Democratic staffer said later, was "the understatement of the year...
...decision to run for the Senate after scarcely eight months in the House and fear that he may grab at the presidency with the same restlessness. So far, Dannemeyer has refused to promise the usual endorsement of the winner. A month ago, Barney Klinger, a wealthy Republican industrialist who has entertained Nixon and Reagan in his house, held a fund raiser that made $100,000 -- for Feinstein. Says Klinger: "Michael fooled us once . . . He has no goal. She does, and she's about 10,000 times smarter than he is, but her goals are to promote her cult, of which...