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...upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National Guard Armory for dances and bought and ran a bar. He earned his junior-year expenses with a chain letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bigger Screen for Mark Cuban | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...love at first search. Unlike popular favorites Yahoo, Excite and Lycos, which have morphed into monstrous slicer-dicer portals offering everything from daily horoscopes to free e-mail, Google does only one thing--search--and does it spectacularly. Whether I'm looking for a home remedy for sinusitis or trying to find a long-lost friend online, it has an uncanny knack for locating what I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaga over Google | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...created by Smith, the founder, after he saw an industrial slicer at a Las Vegas trade convention capable of slicing 12,000 bagels per hour. Smith, previously a mechanical engineer at General Electric, created his own toned-down version to be suitable for a store environment...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grand Opening Offers Beer, Bagels, Buzz Saw | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...television, but that marital abuse occurs far too often in our society, The tragedy here is two-fold: it is the horror of a woman dismembering her husband coupled with the knowledge that she suffered from his physical abuse. Our efforts should be spent not promoting weenie tosses or slicer jokes, but working to ensure that incidents such as either of these do not occur again...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: Learning From the Bobbitts | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...rest of the play, we could not suppress the images of Jack Tripper tripping over the back of a couch, Felipe the vegetable slicer shouting Spanish curses and Janet hopping around the apartment in nothing but a longish football jersey. In short, we had mentally replaced Lillian Hellman's drama with Three's Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three's Company For You | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

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