The secrecy surrounding Colossus meant Mr Flowers' position in the history of computers has been overlooked.
Together, they lined up an investment group of global financial firms, with Mr Flowers holding the largest single interest.
What Mr Flowers brought to Long-Term Credit, apart from a bid-topping offer, was a perspective drawn from a particular kind of background.
By 1998, the group that Mr Flowers headed at Goldman, which advised financial institutions, was producing as much as one-third of the firm's investment-banking revenues.
Eighteen days later Mr Flowers had acquired a controlling interest in Enstar, a small firm in Alabama that had two big attractions: a stockmarket value beneath its cash holdings, and a tax-loss to carry forward.
In early 1999, Mr Flowers left for Japan on a hunch that this was where the biggest opportunities existed he had seen the tremendous amounts of money made by investors out of government-assisted bank bail-outs in Sweden, France and, especially, the United States.
Savile was a regular visitor to Jersey and was Mr Battle of Flowers three times, the last time in 2002.
Savile was a regular visitor to the island and was Mr Battle of Flowers three times, the last time in 2002.
Sir Jimmy was a regular visitor to Jersey and was Mr Battle of Flowers three times, the last time in 2002.
During his trip Mr Wen laid flowers before a statue of Deng, who turned Shenzhen into a test bed for economic change exactly 30 years ago.
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Mourners, many wearing red T-shirts and carrying pictures of Mr Chavez, threw flowers at the coffin, which was draped in a Venezuelan flag.
She also told the court of the last night the group went out together when Mr Turner bought Miss Longley flowers and chocolate and then followed her around the Bournemouth and Poole areas.
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At the memorial of flowers placed by Mr Branagh's friends and family at the spot where he died, there were also messages of support from the UDA and the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
X-ray and ultrasound machines, helped by earnings from Mr Zhou's sideline business growing flowers and trees.
Mr Putin met the protesters and laid flowers on the fan's grave.
While Mr. Leatham believes you should place flowers wherever you want a room to pop, he does have a few favorite spots in his home for buds.
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President Asif Ali Zardari sent flowers to the Lahore hospital where Mr Khan was under observation after suffering a head injury that needed several stitches.
After Mr. Tex burned, fair patrons placed flowers and get-well cards in a makeshift shrine at Big Tex circle, a landscaped mound where he perched every year.
Donations have flooded into Mr Irwin's charity Wildlife Warriors, while flowers, cards and trademark khaki shirts have been left at the Australian Zoo he ran.
"I look at it as if the vase is the body and the flowers are the clothing, " says Mr. Leatham, who prefers crystal or clear-glass vases with clean lines.
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Mr. BERNS: If you look at the flowers, we're seeing changes in lightness, changes in chroma, how much color, but also we see slight changes in hue going from purplish to bluish to reddish.
Mr. Leatham is very particular about the number of flowers in his vases.
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"They will put a few flowers on the memorial on Saturday, " said Mr Morgan's brother Alastair, who lives in London.
Also, if Mr. Leatham plans to have more than one arrangement of flowers in a room, he likes to have the vases match one another having square ones or bubble-shaped ones of varying sizes, for example.
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"Nobody's going to throw flowers at someone who made a lot of money, " Mr. Diller says.
Mr. Alwyn's concept has tapped into an anti-hearts and flowers vibe beating through the culture.
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Mr Uribe's custom-made bed was decorated with a canopy, flowers and gold-trimmed bows at it was towed by a truck through the streets of Monterrey to a local hall for the civil service, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Mr Lobban also praised the technological achievements of Turing's colleagues - including Tommy Flowers, a post office engineer who designed and constructed the Colossus codebreaking digital computer.
Mr. SALVADOR PADILLA (Cousin of Geovani Padillaaleman): Right here you see all these flowers and candles, crosses, and a rosary.
Accompanied by his partner Carrie Valentine, Mr Burgess, 35, chatted with Aaron's friends before looking at the cards and flowers that were left for his son.
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