He won the prestigious Italian Open in 1994, defeating Boris Becker in the final, and two singles matches in the 1995 Davis Cup final against Russians Andrei Chesnokov and Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Moscow.

In 1974, the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer prize for The Denial of Death ( 1973 ), which was based on Rank ’ s post-Freudian writings, especially Will Therapy ( 1929 – 31 ), Psychology and the Soul ( 1930 ) and Art and Artist ( 1932 / 1989 ).

Becker also won five major indoor championships titles including three ATP Masters World Tour Finals ( played eight finals, second all-time to Ivan Lendl, who played nine ) and one WCT Finals and one Grand Slam Cup.

Becker turned professional in 1984, under the guidance of Romanian-born coach, Günther Bosch, and with Ion Ţiriac as manager and won his first professional doubles title that year in Munich.

As a West German teenager, Becker won his first top-level singles title in June 1985 at Queen's Club and two weeks later on 7 July, became the first unseeded player and the first German to win the Wimbledon singles title, defeating Kevin Curren in four sets.

Becker won, 4 – 6, 15 – 13, 8 – 10, 6 – 2, 6 – 2 ( at that time, there were no tiebreaks in the Davis Cup ).

In 1989, Becker won two Grand Slam singles titles, the only year he won more than one.

In 1992 Becker won seven tour titles including his second ATP Tour World Championships defeating Jim Courier in four sets.

Becker was most comfortable playing on fast-playing surfaces, particularly grass courts and indoor carpet ( on which he won 26 titles ).

Over the course of his career, Becker won 49 singles titles and 15 doubles titles.

Becker won singles titles in 14 different countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Qatar, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.

Becker won the law suit.

Becker won their match, the second rubber in a 3 – 2 loss to West Germany in World Group Relegation play, 4 – 6, 15 – 13, 8 – 10, 6 – 2, 6 – 2.

A year later, Becker won in straight sets.

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Kuerten won his second French Open title ; the trophy was presented to him by Boris Becker.

After a lengthy period of inactivity as a band which began in the early 1980s, the duo of Becker and Fagen revived Steely Dan in the mid 1990s, and have since produced two more Steely Dan studio albums: 2000s Two Against Nature which won several Grammys, Everything Must Go ( 2003 ), as well as the live CD Alive in America ( 1995 ) and a live concert DVD entitled Two Against Nature, which included material spanning much of the band's history.

Becker and Fagen reformed Steely Dan in 1993 and have remained active, most notably including their 2000 Two Against Nature album, which won four Grammy Awards.

Eight MPS members, F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Maurice Allais, James M. Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Gary S. Becker and Vernon Smith have won Nobel prizes in economics.

He won the tournament by defeating second seed Rafael Nadal, third seed Novak Djoković, and top seed Roger Federer in consecutive rounds, becoming the third player after Boris Becker and Djoković to defeat the world's top three players in a single tournament.

While 2008 was the first year the Monitor or one of its staff won a Pulitzer, the paper has a number of alums who have been honored, including Jo Becker, of the New York Times and Steven Pearlstein, of the Washington Post, both of whom also won the award in 2008.

The origins of Unicode date back to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.

The group's radicalism caused some members to leave ; when the Pankhursts disrupted a public meeting organised by Lydia Becker in 1892, both Blatch and Elmy resigned from the WFL.

In March 2012 Leslie Becker was selected to fill the seat vacated when Jonathan DeJoseph resigned to accept the position of Administrator and CFO.

Fagen was passing by a cafe called The Red Balloon when he heard Becker rehearsing the electric guitar.

After winning the Queen's Club Championships for the fourth time, Becker was widely expected to mount a serious challenge for the Wimbledon title in 1996, but his bid ended abruptly when he damaged his right wrist during a third-round match against Neville Godwin and was forced to withdraw.

He was renominated handily for the 1894 campaign, when he ran against the Populist Sidney Owen and Democrat George Becker.

Chapman also intensely dislikes it when Becker becomes his " equal ".

Success continued when he also took the Masters Grand Prix title for the third time defeating Boris Becker in straight sets.

Peter Becker describes the developments during this period when he states that:

His best performance in the year-end singles championship came in 1995, when he defeated Muster, Jim Courier, and then shockingly dominated Pete Sampras in the semifinals, before losing in the final to Boris Becker.

The Becker Defence ( 3. Nf3 h6 ), has the idea of creating a pawn chain on h6, g5, f4 to defend the f4 pawn while avoiding the Kieseritzky Gambit ; Black will not be forced to play ... g4 when White plays to undermine the chain with h4.

However, when Becker could no longer physically play even a keyboard, his friend and music producer Mike Bemesderfer helped him with a music-composing computer program which could read the movements of his head and eyes, enabling Becker to continue to compose after he lost control of the rest of his body.

On August 20, 2010, Becker declared that he is considering releasing an album of music he recorded when he was in his teenage years.

Seconds later, Rob kills Becker in a panic when Becker attempts to choke him.

In the early 1960s, WNEW-TV produced children's shows such as Romper Room ( until 1966, when it moved to WOR-TV ), The Sandy Becker Show, and The Sonny Fox Show, which was later known as Wonderama.

Walter Becker was living on Maui, Hawaii, when he was approached by Virgin to work on this project, and he had to leave his expecting partner Eleanor to assist.

Also, in 2006, Becker edited and contributed to Art from Start to Finish, a compilation of sociological essays addressing the question of how an artists decides when a work is finished.

He was succeeded by H. Peter Aiken who served until 1986, when he was succeeded by Lawrence W. Becker, who stepped down in 2008.

Becker decides to hold the two sisters for ransom, but they are rescued when Clark intercepts the truck and stops it, although the Lanes are unaware of his involvement.

However, Weyl, whose sympathies were with contructivism and intuitionism, lost patience when he argued with Becker about a purported intuition of the infinite defended by Becker.

Development of the A3 can be traced at least to February 1935 when Major Ernst Ritter von Horstig sent General Karl Becker a budget of almost one half-million marks for the construction of two new test stands at Kummersdorf.