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Good Morning, World Good Morning, World was a television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the 1967-1968 season. It was designed as a starring vehicle for Ronnie Schell, who had proven to be fairly popular as "Duke", one of Gomer's buddies, in the hit program Gomer Pyle, USMC over the three previous seasons.
Good Mourning Good Mourning, a twelve-song album by Alkaline Trio that was released in 2003 on Vagrant Records and produced by Joe McGrath. Jerry Finn co-produced and mixed the album (Finn had previously worked with AFI, Green Day and Blink-182).
Good Neighbor Pharmacy Good Neighbor Pharmacy is a retailers' cooperative network of 1,800 independently owned and operated pharmacies. It has a business affiliation with AmerisourceBergen (Bergen Brunswig Drug Company), which sponsors the network and owns the name "Good Neighbor Pharmacy".
Good Neighbour Policy The Good Neighbour Policy is an agreement amongst horse racing jurisdictions that they shall not provide betting on horse racing to residents of other signatory jurisdictions without the permission of that signatory jurisdiction, nor solicit, market nor advertise betting without prior authorisation from that other signatory jurisdiction.
Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval The Good NetKeeping Seal of Approval or GNKSA is a designation that indicates a piece of Usenet newsreader (client) software meets a set of usability and formatting standards. The name is a play on the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval", a set of consumer reports issued by Good Housekeeping Magazine.
Good News (musical) Good News is a musical comedy which opened on Broadway in 1927, set on the campus of the fictional "Tait College". The book was by Buddy DeSylva and Laurence Schwab, lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson.
Good News Publishers Good News Publishers is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that publishes and distributes gospel tracts. Good News Publishers is the parent company of Crossway Books, a publisher of evangelical Christian books.
Good News Translation The Good News Translation (GNT) as it is known in North America, or the Good News Bible (GNB) as it is known in the rest of the world, is an English language translation of the Bible by the American Bible Society, first published as the New Testament under the name Good News for Modern Man in 1966. It was anglicised into British English by the British & Foreign Bible Society with the use of metric measurements for the Commonwealth market.
Good Night Show The Good Night Show is a television programming block on PBS KIDS Sprout, a cable and satellite channel available in over 20 million US homes. Designed as a tool to help parents wind preschoolers down after a busy day, The Good Night Show starts at 6:00pm ET (5:00pm CT) each evening.
Good Night, and Good Luck. Good Night, and Good Luck. is an Academy Award-nominated 2005 film directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R.
Good Night, Witness Light Good Night, Witness Light is Daphne Loves Derby's third full length album and is due out March 27, 2007. The term "Witness Light" is partially quoted from a line in one of Robert Frost's Poems that goes as follows:
Good ol' boy Good ol' boy is a slang term used, either to self-identify as or to refer to a male, usually Caucasian and of Northern/Western-European descent, who lives in a rural area and/or subscribes to a traditionally "rural" lifestyle. The term is generally thought to originate in the rural areas of the southern and southwestern U.
Good ol' boy network The good ol' boy network describes a system of social networking and perceptions alleged to exist prevalently among certain communities and social strata in the United States. Although the term originated in the South, these networks can be found throughout the U.
Good old boys Good old boys or "good ole boys" is an American euphemism to describe men of privilege who have better access to education, high paying jobs and lucrative business relationships. These traditionally white men are most often found at Ivy League schools, country clubs, and on Wall Street.
Good Old Cause The Good Old Cause was the name given by the soldiers of the New Model Army for the reasons they fought for the Parliament of England against King Charles I and the Royalists during the English Civil War and the support they gave to the English Commonwealth between 1649 and 1660. Many of those who supported the Good Old Cause were also Independents who advocated local congregational control of religious and church matters.
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy () is the fourth single ("Queen's First EP") from and eighth track on the British rock group Queen's 1976 album A Day at the Races, written by Freddie Mercury. It was one of several British music hall-inspired songs written by both Mercury and Brian May that appeared on other Queen albums from the 1970s.
Good Omens Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990) is a fantasy novel written in collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Due to the different status of the two authors in the United States and the United Kingdom, American editions credit Gaiman before Pratchett, while British editions credit Pratchett before Gaiman.
Good pain (BDSM) Good pain and bad pain are terms used lightheartedly by BDSM practitioners, signifying that whilst BDSM may include an element (often quite pronounced) consensual pain, there is a purpose to it, and some pain is consented to and accepted whilst other pain is not.
Good Question Good Question is a R&B and dance music vocal duo from Philadelphia Pennsylvania consisting of brothers Sean and Marc Douglas. Their biggest hit came in 1988 when they hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Got A New Love.
Good Reasons approach The Good Reasons approach is a meta-ethical theory that states simply that ethical conduct is justified if the actor has good reasons for that conduct. The Good Reasons approach is not opposed to ethical theory per se, but is antithetical to wholesale justifications of morality and stresses that our moral conduct requires no further ontological or other fundament beyond concrete justifications.
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is a popular song by the American pop punk band Green Day. Although written by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong just after the release of their 1994 hit album Dookie, the song was not released until their 3rd major-label album nimrod.
Good Safety Practice Good Safety Practice or GSP deals with good practices to improve occupational safety. Because of the diversity of industries, GSPs vary between industries, such as Agriculture, Construction, Education, Fisheries, and Health Care.
Good Sam Club The Good Sam Club is an international organization of recreational vehicle owners. Its primary goals are to make RVing safer and more enjoyable, and to save members money through Club-endorsed benefits and services.
Good Samaritan law Good Samaritan laws in the United States and Canada are laws protecting from blame those who choose to aid others who are injured or ill. They are intended to reduce bystanders' hesitation to assist, for fear of being prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death.
Good Shepherd Montessori School (South Bend, Indiana) The Good Shepherd Montessori School is a small private elementary school (grades 1 through 6) in South Bend, Indiana that merges the educational methods of Montessori with the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The school was founded in 2002 by a small group of parents and teachers who wanted to link Montessori education with religious and spiritual development and promote peace in a racially and economically diverse setting.
Good Shepherd Sunday Good Shepherd Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Easter in the new liturgical calendar; that is, the Sunday three weeks after Easter Sunday. The name derives from the gospel readings on this day which are taken from the 10th chapter of John.
Good Ship Venus The Good Ship Venus , also known as Friggin' in the Riggin', is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the titular ship's loose moralled crew. The tune usually used (especially for the chorus) is "In and Out the Windows".
Good Song "Good Song" is a song by Blur and was released as the last single from their seventh album Think Tank in 2003 (see 2003 in British music). It reached only #22 on the UK Singles Chart, making it Blur's lowest placing single since 1993's "Sunday Sunday", from the album Modern Life Is Rubbish.
Good to Go (Terrorvision) Good To Go is Terrorvision's final studio album, prior to their breakup in 2001. The sound of this album continues the band's musical evolution, with more electronic instruments and effects than previous albums.
Good to Great Good to Great is a management book by Jim Collins that describes how companies transition from being average companies to great companies and how companies can fail to make the transition. Collins, already established as one of the most influential management consultants, further established his credibility with the wildly popular Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...
Good Thing A Good Thing, usually written with capital letters and sometimes with a trademark (™), is a humorous phrase for anything that is seen as good or desirable. The phrase is particularly used when the writer wishes to emphasize information supposedly unknown to the reader, such as when making a recommendation.
Good To Be Alive Good To Be Alive is the most famous song from the DJ Rap album Learning Curve and is also featured on the soundtrack of the 1999 movie Go. Its heavy, plodding bass beat and flowing lyrics make it stand out from DJ Rap's typical fast-paced drum and bass style.
Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper First released as a feature film in 1974 and eventually restored and released on DVD in 2005, this Alice Cooper DVD presents footage of a live show from the Billion Dollar Babies tour filmed in Dallas, TX on April 28th, 1973. There are also filmed inserts relating a somewhat confused storyline with a German film director chasing the 'Cooper gang' after they abandon his would-be masterpiece movie.
Good Tools The Good Tools are a set of ROM auditing tools written by Cowering for Windows Console Mode which are capable of auditing and maintaining collections of ROMs for various video game consoles and home computer systems. These ROMs can then be run on the original machine or on a more powerful general-purpose computer (e.
Good Vibrations (business) Good Vibrations is a sex toy business based in San Francisco and originally founded in 1977 by sex therapist and educator Joani Blanka graduate of Oberlin College], [[University of Hawaii and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Good Vibrations operates three retail stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, and another in Brookline, MA, a mail-order business, a website and three publishing companies: Down There Press, Passion Press and Sexpositive Productions.
Good Vibrations (musical) Good Vibrations is a Broadway jukebox musical featuring the music of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. It opened February 2, 2005 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and ran for 94 performances before closing on April 24, 2005.
Good Vibrations Festival Good Vibrations Festival is an annual music festival that takes place During February in Australia (and, this year, in Singapore). All the Good Vibrations events are staged within natural surroundings, rather than arenas or sports complexes.
Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is a 1997 film directed by Gus Van Sant, set in greater Boston, Massachusetts. It tells the story of Will Hunting, a troubled prodigy who works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, despite the fact that his knowledge of and facility with higher mathematics far outstrips that of anyone in the school, if not the country.
Good Wilt Hunting Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Good Wilt Hunting, which first aired on November 23, 2006, is a 60-minute made-for-television film starring the cast of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It premiered on Thanksgiving.
Good's buffers Good's buffers (also Good buffers) are twelve buffering agents selected and described by Norman Good and colleagues in 1966. Good selected the buffers based on a number of criteria which make them candidates for use in biochemistry and biological research.
Good-Bye Radar Good-Bye, Radar is a two-part episode of M*A*S*H that aired at the beginning of the show's eighth season. The episode's parts aired on October 8 and 15, 1979, and were the final two to feature Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly.
Good-Bye to All That Good-Bye to All That, an autobiography by Robert Graves, first appeared in print in 1929. The title expresses Graves' disillusionment in the existence of traditional, stable values in European and English society.
Good-Turing frequency estimation Good–Turing frequency estimation is a statistical technique for predicting the probability of occurrence of objects belonging to an unknown number of species, given past observations of such objects and their species.
Goodacre (crater) Goodacre is a lunar impact crater. It is located in the rugged southern highlands on the Moon's near side, and is attached to the north-northeastern part of the exterior of Gemma Frisius crater, a heavily worn and much larger formation.
Goodall Cup The Goodall Cup is the championship trophy of the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) ice hockey in Australia. The Goodall Cup has been contested as the national senior men's ice hockey trophy in Australia since 1909, making it the third oldest known ice hockey trophy, after the Stanley Cup (1892) and the Allan Cup (1908).
Goodall Wooten House The Goodall Wooten House is a historic home built in 1898-1900 near the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. It was inhabited by local doctor and benefactor Goodall Wooten for many years and was noted for its Classical Revival architecture and gardens.
Goodby Silverstein & Partners Goodby, Silverstein & Partners is an advertising agency located in San Francisco, California and co-founded by Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein. The agency has been responsible for many well-known advertising and marketing campaigns across all media and also leads work on global campaigns for such clients as HP and Motorola.
Goodbye Again (TV) Goodbye Again (1968) is a series of four hour-long television programmes made by the British TV network ITV to re-unite Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and recreate their very successful BBC comedy series Not Only... But Also (begun 1965).
Goodbye Bafana Goodbye Bafana is a forthcoming drama film about the relationship between Nelson Mandela and James Gregory, one of his prison guards, based on the alledgedly fraudulent book Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend by James Gregory.
Goodbye Girl "Goodbye Girl" was the first single released from Squeeze's second album Cool for Cats. Three different versions were recorded: one for the UK single, one for the American single, and one for the album.
Goodbye Japan Goodbye Japan is a non-fiction book on Japan written by an American journalist Joseph Newman published in 1942. It was intended to reveal the position and intentions of that country just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Goodbye My Lover "Goodbye My Lover" is a pop song written by British singer James Blunt and Sacha Skarbek for Blunt's debut album Back to Bedlam (2004). The song was produced by Tom Rothrock and Jimmy Hogarth and received a mixed reception from music critics.
Goodbye Pork Pie Goodbye Pork Pie is a 1981 (international release) film directed by Geoff Murphy and written by Ian Mune, with assistance from Geoff Murphy. The film is considered to be one of New Zealand's most popular films, and is occasionally considered New Zealand's equivalent of Easy Rider.
Goodbye to a River Goodbye to a River is a book by author John Graves, published in 1960. It is a "semi-historical" account of a canoe trip made by the author during the Fall of 1958 down a stretch of the Brazos River in North Central Texas, between Possum Kingdom Dam and Lake Whitney, and contains both the author's account of the trip itself and numerous stories about the history and settling of the area around the river and North Central Texas.
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" was a television movie that served as the 251st and final episode of the M*A*S*H television series. Closing out the series' eleventh season, the 2½-hour episode first aired on Monday, February 28, 1983.
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse Goodbye, Mickey Mouse is a historical novel by Len Deighton published in 1982. Set in Britain in early 1944 it tells the story of the 220th Fighter Group of the US Eighth Air Force in the lead up to the Allied invasion of Europe.
Goodbyeee... Goodbyeee... is the title of the final episode of both the fourth series of the popular BBC One television sitcom Blackadder (as Blackadder Goes Forth), and the final episode of Blackadder regularly produced and transmitted.
Goode Bryan Goode Bryan (August 31, 1811 – August 16, 1885) was a planter, politician, military officer, and American Civil War general in the Confederate States Army. His brigade played a prominent role during the Battle of the Wilderness, fighting stubbornly until exhausting its ammunition.
Goodeniaceae The family Goodeniaceae is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola which is pantropical. Its species are found across most of Australia, being especially common in arid and semi-arid climates.
Goodenough Baronets The Goodenough Baronetcy, of Broadwell and Filkins in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 January 1943 for William Macnamara Goodenough, Chairman of Barclay's Bank and of the Nuffield Foundation.
Goodenough College Goodenough College is a postgraduate residence and educational trust on Mecklenburgh Square in London, England. Other names under which the College has been known are London House, William Goodenough House and the London Goodenough Trust.
Goodfeathers The Goodfeathers were characters in the cartoon TV series Animaniacs that were obvious pigeon parodies of Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, and Joe Pesci's roles in Goodfellas. They lived atop a park statue of Martin Scorsese in New York City, and spoke with distinct 'New Yawk' accents.
Goodfellow Air Force Base Goodfellow Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in San Angelo, Texas. As part of Air Education & Training Command (AETC) Goodfellow's main mission is cryptologic and intelligence training for the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
Goodhart's law Goodhart's law is the equivalent in the social sciences of the uncertainty principle in physics. Though it has been expressed in a variety of formulations, the essence of the law is that once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role.
Goodheart - Willcox Publishing Company Goodheart-Willcox an American International Publishing Company headed by CEO/President John Flanagan. It is a premier publisher for Technical, Trades, Technology; Family & Consumer Sciences; and Career Education.
Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics is an American textbook of pharmacology. First published in 1941, the book is in its eleventh edition (as of 2006), and has the reputation of being the "bible of pharmacology".
Goodman Ace Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz (January 15, 1899 – March 25, 1982), was one of the most respected humourists in the 20th Century United States, mostly as a radio writer and comedian, a television writer, and a magazine columnist.
Goodman Fielder Goodman Fielder is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of bread, small goods, dairy products, margarine, oil, sauces, dressings and various food ingredients. Its main operations are in Australia and in New Zealand; the company has an annual turnover of $600 million.
Goodman School of Drama The Goodman School of Drama is now renamed The Theatre School, DePaul University. Founded in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, a city with a rich theatrical heritage, the Goodman School became part of DePaul University in 1978.
Goodman Stadium Goodman Stadium is Lehigh University's 16,000-seat stadium located on its Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. It opened in 1988, replacing Taylor Stadium which stood in the main academic campus from 1914 until 1987.
Goodman's Fields Theatre There were two theatres bearing the name Goodman's Fields Theatre located on Ayliffe Street, Whitechapel, London. The first was opened 31 October 1727 in a small shop by Thomas Odell, deputy Liscenser of Plays.
Goodman-Nguyen-van Fraassen algebra A Goodman-Nguyen-van Fraassen algebra is a type of conditional event algebra (CEA) that embeds the standard Boolean algebra of unconditional events in a larger algebra which is itself Boolean. The goal (as with all CEAs) is to equate the conditional probability P(A ∩ B) / P(A) with the probability of a conditional event, P(A → B) for more than just trivial choices of A, B, and P.
Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway is the name of a fictional law firm featured in the pages of the She-Hulk comic books, published by Marvel Comics. Created by Dan Slott, senior GLK&H law partner Holden Holliway first appeared in She-Hulk #1 (May 2004), where he hired the titular heroine to be a lawyer for his law firm, but as Jennifer Walters.
Goodmayes railway station Goodmayes railway station is a railway station at Goodmayes in the London Borough of Redbridge in East London. The station once had an extensive shunting yard for goods traffic but this fell into disuse during Dr Beeching's modernisation (known at the time as "axing") of the railway system in 1963, and was eventually dismantled.
Goodness Gracious Me (song) "Goodness Gracious Me" is a comedy song recorded by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, and was a top 10 UK single in 1960. It features the stars acting the role of two Indian Asians – Sellers a doctor, and Loren his patient – who fall in love.
Goodness of fit Goodness of fit means how well a statistical model fits a set of observations. Measures of goodness-of-fit typically summarize the discrepancy between observed values and the values expected under the model in question.
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which a young English professor from Queen's University who has theorized about a missing clown character in Shakespeare's tragedies, finds herself caught up in the plots of Othello and Romeo and Juliet, and changes the stories radically.
Goodnight Girl "Goodnight Girl" was the third single from Wet Wet Wet's fourth studio album, High on the Happy Side. It was released on December 24, 1991, and was the second of the band's three UK number one singles (the first being a cover of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends"), but the only one to be self-penned.
Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight Sweetheart was a British sitcom that was broadcast between 1993 and 1999 starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, in which Lyndhurst's character Gary Sparrow comes across a time portal in the East End of London which allows him to travel between the modern day and World War II. The time in both periods progresses at a steady rate so during the six series of the programme the whole of the war is seen out.
Goodnight-Loving Trail The Goodnight-Loving Trail was a trail used in the cattle drives of the late 1860s for the large-scale movement of Texas Longhorns northward from the open range country of west Texas and New Mexico to the railroads in Colorado in the United States.
Goodnight, Irene "Goodnight Irene," or "Irene," is a 20th century American folk standard. Some sources, including blues scholar Paul Oliver, claim the version popularized by Lead Belly in the 1940s is based on the 1886 pop song by Gussie L.
Goodnow Hall Goodnow Hall is the only co-ed residence hall in the Kramer Complex at Kansas State University. It is located on the West side of Kansas State's Manhattan, Kansas campus next to Marlatt Hall, on the corner of Denison Avenue and Claflin Roadd.
GoodNites Goodnites (Drynites in some countries) are a way of managing bedwetting. Goodnites are absorbent disposable underpants, manufactured by Kimberly Clark (makers of Huggies diapers and Depend Briefs) made primarily for children and teens who still wet the bed at night.
Goodphil Goodphil, short for The Goodphil Games, is a three-day competition every March between Filipino students' associations of 11 Universities and Colleges in Texas (The University of Texas at Austin,Texas A&M University, University of Houston, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Baylor University, University of St. Thomas, Texas Tech University, University of Texas at Dallas , and Texas State University.
Goodridge Elementary School Chester Goodridge Elementary is a public K-5 elementary school located in Hebron, Kentucky. It sits on a larger campus including Conner High School, Conner Middle School, and the Boone County Area Technology Center.
Goodrich Castle Goodrich Castle is situated to the north of the village of Goodrich in Herefordshire between Monmouth and Hay-on-Wye (). It stands on a high rocky spur overlooking the River Wye and commanded a crossing of the river.
Goods and Services Tax (Canada) The Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) (French: Taxe sur les produits et services, TPS) is a multi-level value-added tax introduced in Canada on January 1, 1991, by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and finance minister Michael Wilson. The introduction of the GST was very controversial.
Goods and Services Tax (Singapore) Goods and Services Tax (Abbreviation: GST; Chinese: 消费税) was introduced in Singapore on April 1, 1994 at 3%, but later increased to 4% on January 1,2003 and 5% on January 1,2004. It is slated to rise to 7% though it is yet to be implemented.
Goodshit Radio Goodshit Radio is an independent underground hip hop radio show broadcasted every week on radio and the net from Oslo, Norway. Since 1998, host and rapper Don Martin (of Gatas Parlament) have brought listeners old and fresh quality hip hop - without playing commercialized rap "hits".
Goodspeed Musicals Goodspeed Musicals, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, was formed in 1959 to restore the Goodspeed Opera House, located in East Haddam, Connecticut, to its original Victorian appearance and elegance. Each year, Goodspeed produces a total of 6 professional musicals.
Goodspeed Nunataks Goodspeed Nunataks () is a group of three rows of nunataks, oriented approximately east-west and 10 to 15 miles long, located at the west end of Fisher Glacier, about 30 miles westnorthwest of Mount McCauley, in the Prince Charles Mountains in Antarctica. They were sighted by an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) seismic party led by K.
GoodSearch GoodSearch is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates 50% of its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities and schools designated by its users. The money donated comes from the site's advertisers.
Goodtimes virus The Goodtimes Virus was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity. Warnings about a computer virus named "Good Times" began being passed around among Internet users in 1994.
Goodwill (accounting) In accounting, goodwill is that part of the market value of a business entity not directly attributable to its assets and liabilities. It reflects the ability of the entity to make a higher profit than would be a normal on the tangible assets; either now, or expected in the future.
Goodwill (business) Goodwill is a concept used to refer to an individual or a business's ability to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien. Different entities will have different amounts of goodwill within the group.
Goodwill Games The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. The 1979 invasion of Afghanistan caused the USA and other Western countries to boycott the 1980 Olympics, an act reciprocated when the Soviet Bloc boycotted the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Goodwill Industries Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (Goodwill) is a network of autonomous community-based organizations providing job training and employment services to people with work place disadvantages and disabilities in 24 countries.
Goodwill Scholarships Goodwill Scholarships are college-level scholarships created and fully funded starting in 2003 by two private citizens in Prince William County, Virginia, to aid international students who study at the Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC).
Goodwin College of Professional Studies The Goodwin College of Professional Studies is a college of Drexel University intended for currently employed people seeking higher education. Almost 90% of its students attend part time, and many of the courses offered are held at night or on Saturdays, making it more convenient for those currently holding full-time jobs.
Goodwin Field Goodwin Field is a stadium in Fullerton, California. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Cal State Fullerton Titans of the NCAA's Big West Conference and Fullerton Flyers minor league baseball teams.

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