Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the answer doesn't appear anywhere in Jackson's findings. The truth is that there are probably more Linux programs than he realized--a lot more. The best estimate I could find was tens of thousands. Linux, after all, inherited thousands of programs written for Unix, its software progenitor, and users are constantly adding to that library, modifying here, rewriting there, publicizing some and hoarding others...
...WILLYS JEEP The general-purpose vehicle that carried G.I.s during World War II created the off-road market. Then came Jeep's renaissance as the progenitor of the sport-utility vehicles favored by suburbanites...
This miracle of invention, inspired by a vanilla aria on which Handel himself wrote five unassuming variations, drew praise even from Brahms' antipode, Wagner. Like their worthy companions, the Bach Goldberg and the Beethoven Diabelli, these pieces explore the melodic and harmonic potential of their progenitor exhaustively, and function collectively as a treatise on the composer's sense of keyboard style. But more than the Goldberg and the Diabelli, the Handel variations are witty...
...entered the fray. Diesel, based in Molvena, Italy, has flogged its $99 jeans with imagery of naked blow-up dolls sitting at a board meeting with an obese ceo. Its U.S. sales have grown from $2 million to $23 million in four years. JNCO, of Los Angeles, considered the progenitor of today's wide-leg craze, has taken off from the backsides of skateboarders to the broader jean community. The company, with industry estimated sales of more than $40 million, has led the industry with styles such as suede chaps and huge hem widths. "When the rest of the industry...
...researchers hope to "do a lot to try to understand the basic cell biology of the neural progenitor cells, the basic forces driving them to become specific cells, and their capabilities from a therapeutic point of view," Snyder said...