someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees
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someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
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Joe Cruzan did get a court decision allowing for the removal of his daughter's feeding tube removed, but he said after her funeral Friday: "I would prefer to let my daughter die and let somebody else be this trailblazer.
Pan Am, a trailblazer for decades, has done poorly in recent years, as flashy foreign carriers and U.S. rivals with huge domestic route networks have robbed it of market share.
Dwight Bedsole of Du Pont Co., the world's biggest producer of CFCs and a trailblazer in developing CFC substitutes, said: "There is little or nothing Du Pont can do that it is not doing today to speed up the transition" to safer alternatives.