• After a really successful partnership syndicating gdgt's product database to tens of millions of Engadget pages per month, Peter and I were approached by a whip-smart guy by the name of Jay Kirsch, who runs the group Engadget, TechCrunch, Joystiq, and TUAW are a part of.

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  • He toiled only by lantern-light, not letting anyone watch him work, and stopping when passers-by approached.

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  • He was constantly approached by people - some with amazingly personal and painful revelations of infertility or miscarriages.

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  • The referee had a gambling problem and was approached by low-level mob associates through an acquaintance, the official said.

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  • Mr. Eggleston has been enormously prolific, his work is diverse, and it is best approached on a case-by-case basis.

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  • In 2005, Margolis was approached by Jean-Claude Biver, a very successful figure in the Swiss watch industry, who at the time was working for the Swatch Group.

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  • Reg says it's been approached by Rolls-Royce, Honda and Boeing, but its hopes currently rest with the U.S. military, which is pursuing the idea of sticking the lightweight Radmax into aerial drones.

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  • When approached by cash-strapped Korean banks, J.

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  • Ailes, a highly respected political-consultant guru who was successfully raising CNBC's profile and audience numbers when approached by Murdoch (who correctly sensed Ailes was under-appreciated by his then-bosses), succeeded by emphatically breaking the too-liberal mold of TV-land.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • He said his members would welcome a ban on accident victims being approached to make claims by cold-callers.

    BBC: Injury claim referral fees to be banned

  • Police are investigating after a nine-year-old boy was approached by two men who asked him to get into their car in Edinburgh.

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  • Former Wales captain Gary Speed has been approached by Swansea while ex-Watford boss Aidy Boothroyd and Exeter manager Paul Tisdale have been linked.

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  • Packing away my camera and microphone, I was approached by a parking attendant - known in Mexico's informal economy as a "viene viene".

    BBC: Mexico row over Azeri leader Heydar Aliyev's statue

  • Graham said he's been approached by around 10 college-basketball players who wanted to try the NFL. He said he usually tells them no, since most want to do it for money and probably couldn't take the grueling NFL camps.

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  • The labour of love of eccentric English aristocrat Sir Stewart Gore-Brown, it is approached down a long, tree-lined drive, flanked by farm buildings, settlements and workers houses, giving it the air of an old feudal domain.

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  • His ex-wife declined comment when approached by The Associated Press on Tuesday at her home in Odgen, Utah.

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  • Mr. Goldberg, whose company provides online surveys, said he was also approached by hedge funds, sovereign-wealth funds and others.

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  • The 21-year-old, who was approached by a colleague at Sixways to take part in the race, said it has been a useful way of maintaining his fitness during the off-season.

    BBC: Warriors trio set for triathlon

  • Gatland - a hooker who represented New Zealand 17 times between 1988 and 1991 but was denied a cap by the presence of Sean Fitzpatrick in the team - was on a shortlist of three foreign coaches approached by the Welsh Rugby Union.

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  • In an interesting wrinkle, the latest round of speculation has Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba, being approached by private equity firms about possibly bidding for Yahoo!

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • One study showed that if people who had injured themselves in alcohol-related accidents were approached about their drinking by a doctor while they were still in the hospital, they were less likely to become injured again.

    FORBES: Cutting Alcohol's Cost

  • On Saturday, in the space of 10 maybe 15 minutes, whilst I tried vainly to persuade members of a Newtown women's club to do an interview, I saw a placard-carrying woman by the roadside approached, filmed, photographed by more than a dozen different cameramen and journalists.

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  • Mr Beddell-Pearce suggested that a system of car insurance used in the 1930s - whereby anyone refused insurance by three companies could go back to the first firm approached and demand cover - could be adapted to meet today's needs.

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  • The 64-year-old was approached in the St James Centre by two women who discussed setting up a meeting with a spiritual healer.

    BBC: Japanese tourists in Edinburgh targeted in bank card scam

  • He and the New Zealander were part of Wasps' 2004 Heineken Cup winning coaching set-up, while former Wasps scrum-half Rob Howley could also be approached by Gatland.

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  • Citi was approached by corporates who wanted a secure near real-time connection to the bank for funding and payments.

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  • Darryl Lewis' options odyssey began in 1998, when, he says, he was approached by a Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people )broker, Jeanine Luteijn , who introduced herself as a member of Merrill's Private Client Group and dropped the name of a Microsoft colleague.

    FORBES: Out of Options

  • Trayvon Martin's killer has claimed self-defense, but did Martin deserve to be approached by a neighborhood watchman and shot to death?

    CNN: Helpless as my son, 13, was profiled, cuffed

  • It is understood one of the defendants had been asking passers-by for cigarettes and Mr Whiteley was also approached but said he had none to give.

    BBC: Daniel Whiteley

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