On Tuesday morning, Blakely sent a letter explaining her decision to the Gates Foundation.
Ms. HAMMONDS-BLAKELY: Well, I was in the shower while I was preparing for school one morning.
Blakely aims to whittle 65 billing and 23 accounts-receivable systems down to a much smaller number.
Then in the second half, Salford created a three-man overlap and the ball went to Blakely.
Blakely also stands firmly by her personal beliefs about how business should be done.
Spanx inventor Sara Blakely, who joined the rich list in 2012, is the youngest at 42.
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Nikia Hammonds-Blakely was only 16 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer in 1994.
Blakely, who launched her wunderkind shapewear company in 2000 says she jumped at the chance to join up.
Spanx, panties that help make a woman look more shapely, have made entrepreneur Sara Blakely a billionaire.
Spanx inventor Sara Blakely, who joined the rich list in 2012, is the youngest at 41.
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Blakely herself will be in McLean on Friday to cut the ribbon at the first Spanx mall store.
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Mayor Ray Nagin has picked Dr. Edward Blakely, a professor of urban affairs who used to be at U.C.
Professor BLAKELY: All right, the first thing that we have to do is put the civic infrastructure into the neighborhoods.
Fifty years later, the girdle-like Spanx is back thanks to Sara Blakely, a brilliant woman who built a multimillion empire.
And meanwhile the mayor's most visible hire after the storm, Ed Blakely, a city planner, has faded into the background.
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Blakely owns 100% of the business and says she has no plans to take the company public in the near future.
Ms. HAMMONDS-BLAKELY: Without question, if it was not for God in my life, I would not have made it through that experience.
The FDA says the Blakely plant is the focus of this investigation.
Blakely remembers almost begging business owners like the proprietor of a Clearwater, Fla. fruit and vegetable shop to buy her products.
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According to the Food and Drug Administration, salmonella was found in the Blakely, Georgia, plant of Peanut Corp. of America, which works with Kellogg.
After a meal in Miami with Gates, his wife and Pledge co-founder Melinda Gates and several other couples, Blakely spent months mulling it over.
In California, Dr. Blakely worked on reconstruction projects in the San Francisco Bay Area after the earthquake of 1989 and the Oakland wildfires of 1991.
Ms. HAMMONDS-BLAKELY: I have to say I was your typical teenager.
Just over a decade ago, Sara Blakely was shilling her invention, a modernized girdle, from a folding table in the foyer of Neiman Marcus.
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Mr Blakely appealed, citing his constitutional right to a jury trial.
Instead, it was dreamed up by Ms. Blakely, a former fax machine salesperson who toiled away at the idea while still working at her day job.
Before Blakely hit it big, she worked a handful of unglamorous jobs all of which, she says, contributed to her eventual success with Spanx.
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In visiting the Blakely plant, FDA inspectors found "a facility riddled with unsanitary and unsafe conditions, " said Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, citing the inspector's preliminary report.
Johnson, Miles Davis, Art Blakely, Clifford Brown and a nod to the old hot music once more Sidney Bechet and the New Orleans clarinettist George Lewis.
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