Slim bought up a stable of companies at fire-sale prices big operations were going for 5 percent of their value.
Born Morris Holt to Mississippi farmers in August 1937, Slim gave up the piano and turned to guitar after losing a finger in a cotton gin accident when he was 13.
On the other hand, ex-Talking Head singer Byrne and Fatboy Slim teamed up downtown to create "Here Lies Love, " a well-received musical about the life of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines.
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Lately Carlos Slim has taken up a particular interest in philanthropy, a pursuit he had neglected for most of the years he was building his businesses.
But Honda team principal Ross Brawn backed up Slim's denial.
In the 1980s, when Rodins were valued at a lot less than they are today, Slim began snapping them up.
Mens design director Frank Muytjens said he worked off the color-block paintings of Ellsworth Kelly to create a collection of slim and rolled-up jeans, crisp one- and two-button blazers, and square-cut sweaters.
The company has created a slim bracelet, the UP band, that contains a wealth of sensors and a rechargeable battery all attached to a flexible steel frame enclosed in a special, rubber-like coating.
The optimistic though clung to the slim hope he might turn up for the occasion.
With two weeks to go, Mr da Silva's slim hopes rest on picking up enough votes to enforce a run-off.
The chances of finding a job after the age of 45 and up are so slim that the word "impossible" is not such an exaggeration.
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The state pension begins at 65, but after a day labourer turns 55, says Takao Yamauchi, who runs a local welfare centre, his chances of picking up work are slim.
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The chances of the school-choice movement maintaining the momentum that it built up in 1999 look slim.
The chances of a successful counter offer look slim, given the forces lined up behind the current deal.
That nifty arrangement makes up for Costco's slim profit margins.
She reads fashion magazines for make-up tips and how to keep slim with the right vegetable juices, listens to a digital music player overflowing with the latest Hong Kong Cantopop songs, and recently watched dubbed Korean soap operas on a PC with her girlfriends at her factory dorm munching snacks and drinking beer.
Gabon's slim hopes of qualifying were dependent on Cameroon slipping up but ultimately their campaign ended in defeat to Togo.
Videgaray rejected suggestions that the government negotiated with Mexican telecom Tycoon Carlos Slim, or had given him a heads up prior to the unveiling of the telecom bill in January.
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In the late 1970s, S. Daniel Abraham shook up the weight-loss industry with his Slim-Fast nutrition drinks.
When they hang up their ornate loincloths, they must either slim down or face diabetes and probable early death.
The chances of Local 1877 having to imitate Otis's labour opponents, who in 1910 blew up the Los Angeles Times building, look slim.
So although the chances of seeing a standard banner ad pop up on your Facebook mobile profile are extremely slim, the revenue potential is extremely large.
Yet the West should not give up the effort: there is a (slim) possibility that, as the prospect of an Iranian bomb and an Israeli strike draw near, Russia and China might shift their positions.
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He knew he made a comical picture, a middle-aged man, still slim, with a full head of graying hair, sitting up in bed, letting himself go, blubbering, wailing, indulging in wild, spontaneous woe.
Of course, this could end up being the announcement of a new pearlescent painted PS3 slim, but everyone very much doubts that at this point.
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