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L. Dennis Kozlowski, 2005 News

former chief executive of Tyco International, was found guilty in June by a New York jury of fraud, conspiracy, and grand larceny. Mark Swartz, the company's former chief financial officer,…

L. Paul Bremer, 2003 News

former diplomat and counterterrorism official, took over as the top civilian administrator of Iraq in May, replacing Lt. Gen. Jay Garner. He oversaw the selection of the Iraqi Governing…

Walt Whitman: L. of G.'s Purport

L. of G.'s PurportNot to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,) But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the…

semantics

(Encyclopedia) semantics [Gr.,=significant] in general, the study of the relationship between words and meanings. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a…

Ludwigsburg

(Encyclopedia) LudwigsburgLudwigsburgl&oomacr;tˈvĭkhsb&oobreve;rkhˌ [key], city (1994 pop. 86,220), Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, near the Neckar River. It is a transportation and industrial…

Parrish, Maxfield

(Encyclopedia) Parrish, Maxfield, 1870–1966, American painter and illustrator, b. Philadelphia; pupil of Howard Pyle. He is known for his original and highly decorative posters, magazine covers, and…

Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig

(Encyclopedia) Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig, 1929–2011, German physicist, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany, 1957. Mössbauer was a professor at the California Institute…

Störmer, Horst Ludwig

(Encyclopedia) Störmer, Horst Ludwig, 1949–, German physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Stuttgart, 1977. He joined the research staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., in 1978. Störmer and Daniel Tsui were co…

functionalism, in art and architecture

(Encyclopedia) functionalism, in art and architecture, an aesthetic doctrine developed in the early 20th cent. out of Louis Henry Sullivan's aphorism that form ever follows function. Functionalist…

Goerdeler, Carl Friedrich

(Encyclopedia) Goerdeler, Carl FriedrichGoerdeler, Carl Friedrichkärl frēˈdrĭkh gördˈələr [key], 1884–1945, German civil servant, leader of resistance to Hitler. Lord mayor of Leipzig (1930–37) and…