Word: amped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when I first heard the Ramones. In one corner of the dining room I slept on a sleeping bag. In the living room just adjacent was my stereo, the one I saved up for during the first summer of college: big Bose 501 speaker cabinets, a 100-watt Kenmore amp and a Philips electronic turntable with fancy heat-sensing buttons like an elevator's. I picked up the first two albums on the same day. They were released only months apart: "Ramones" and "Ramones Leave Home...
...sized company. What's remarkable is how Branson created all this value. He put up only $26 million of the more than $90 million that created Virgin trains, but he owns half of it. He also has half of Virgin Direct, for which he says the Australian firm AMP provided most of the funding. Taking Virgin Mobile phones to Asia, Branson got Singapore Telecom, like Singapore Air a government-linked company, to put up half of the $100 million start-up capital, and SingTel may inject another $400 million in convertible loans. Some brands sell products. Virgin's product...