Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made his first million by selling a design for an electronic translator to Sharp Corp. He was so absorbed in the process that he forgot to wheel his Porsche over to Berkeley city hall for his own wedding. He founded Softbank Corp. in Tokyo in 1981. Legend has it that after he stood atop a crate and ranted about the company's future domination of the PC industry, his first two employees quit on the spot. Despite that vote of no confidence, Softbank went on to become Japan's leading software distributor...
...After dinner, Mike (the Canadian techie) takes the wheel of the rental car. We are on the way back to the hotel. Six minutes later, he announces that we are lost. His attempt to take a more efficient route had failed. "It didn't make sense to go south first when we want to go north," he explains. Tom informs me that riding in a car driven by a consultant is not always the best idea, since they have a strange propensity for fender-benders. Not only do consultant drivers want to get where they're going as fast...
...believe is a billionaire, has built 48 palaces for himself since the Gulf War ended. Last April, according to a State Department report, he opened a vacation resort west of Baghdad for his cronies. It is complete with 625 homes, a man-made lake, stadium, amusement park and Ferris wheel...
...Sports anchor Keith Olbermann, busy with baseball play-off duties, turned down the job as host of the show. Fox also looked at several comics and TV emcees. Roughly two weeks before the scheduled premiere, experienced daytime host Chuck Woolery (Love Connection, Wheel of Fortune, etc.) signed on. He says joining a new show so close to liftoff doesn't bother him. "I've been doing this a long time. I can evaluate a show and see if it's worth doing when I first look...
...people, where do they live, where do they go for Thai? I needed to know these things and so did FM readers. The piece would demonstrate true FM investigative reporting. Heck, we'd tail them if we had to, cribbing notes with every turn of the burled walnut steering wheel. Yesiree, stalking professors...