Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Express Corp., has become a $600 million firm by delivering packages that "absolutely, positively have to be there overnight," as its ads claim. Nolan K. Bushnell, 39, invented Pong, the first video game, in 1972. He then sold his company, Atari, to Warner Communications in 1976 for $28 million. Steven Jobs, 26, the co-founder of five-year-old Apple Computer, practically singlehanded created the personal computer industry. This college dropout is now worth $149 million...
Engineers and designers at the headquarters of Apple Computer Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., are accustomed to seeing a slender figure saunter past their offices wearing frayed jeans, suede boots and a cowboy shirt. The boyish-looking fellow with the stringy mustache is Steven Jobs, Apple's chairman of the board. At 26, Jobs heads a company that six years ago was located in a bedroom and garage of his parents' house, but this year it is expected to have sales of $600 million. Like so many new entrepreneurs, Jobs is a child of California's Silicon Valley...
Impersonating a college degree recipient is a misdemeanor in Massachusetts. Last April, Steven S. Grassidonio was sentenced to two years probation for impersonating two Harvard graduate students...
...Oregon, where the lumber industry is hard hit, and discovered that fear pervaded not only those waiting in unemployment-office lines but even the clerks on the other side of the benefits counter. "There is a growing feeling that this can happen to anybody," he says. Chicago's Steven Holmes found one pervasive factor, a creeping uncertainty, which plagued his subjects and complicated his interviews. One unemployed executive told him: "I could handle this a lot better if I knew I would have a job in two months, or six months, or even a year-just as long...
...copyright their products, including the visual and sound effects down to the last zap. Many companies have introduced special coding schemes that are designed to stop copying. The trouble is that computer specialists, who may be only in their teens, can often easily break the protective codes. Says Steven P. Jobs, 26, chairman of Apple Computer: "I've never seen a software protection scheme that someone around here couldn't break in 24 hours...