Orix bought the down-and-out Kobe baseball team and named it the Orix Blue Wave.
By the time that Ichiro was 18, he was making his professional debut with the Orix Blue Wave.
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In 1996, the Blue Wave won the Japan Series behind a stable of unorthodox players and a legendary manager, Ohgi Akira, who encouraged individualism.
The Amaranth diaspora landed them in a pantheon of hedge fund operators: Goldman Sachs, Highbridge Capital, Fortress Investment Group, Millennium Capital, Moore Capital, Carlyle-Blue Wave and Duquesne Capital among them.
Scott Davidson, who ran Amaranth's asset-backed securities desk, worked his own connections to land (along with some ten colleagues) at Carlyle-Blue Wave, a hedge fund offshoot of the private equity giant.
Ms. Le Pen didn't call on her supporters to back Mr. Sarkozy and said "tonight, the blue wave is rocking the establishment, " referring to her first name, which translates as navy blue.
The Amaranth diaspora landed them in a pantheon of hedge fund operators: Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), Highbridge Capital, Fortress Investment Group (nyse: FIG - news - people ), Millennium Capital, Moore Capital, Carlyle-Blue Wave and Duquesne Capital among them.
Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell won their first Ryder Cup match before the rippled turned into a wave of royal blue as the Europeans continued secured wire-to-wire victories in five of the six Sunday showdowns as the tables turned at Celtic Manor.
"We're catching a huge wave of consumer enthusiasm building around Blue Stuff, " says a CVS spokesman.
Blazers, cable knit sweaters, trousers and berets that wave the red, white and blue with nationalistic pride.
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Companies that open blue oceans with defensible solutions and can ride the wave rather than selling out too early are the ones that stand to capture the lion share of value creation.
The Zenit fans added to the sea of blue and white and it was their favourites who launched a wave of attacks from the outset.
That alone is bad news for Barack Obama, at a time when blue collar and union support has fallen significantly enough from 2008 levels to cause a wave of worry.
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But making green off blue power soon proved to be so much California dreaming as plans for West Coast wave energy arrays sank under opposition from surfers, fishermen and local residents.
After all, there is nothing earnest about a "talking" bus from which you are encouraged to wave at passersby or to cheer for that gentleman in a navy-blue suit who just started tap dancing down 42nd Street.
No wonder that equities, even those of blue-chip companies with solid balance sheets and pretty good business prospects, are taking a hit amid this wave of uncertainty.
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