In the early seventies, Watson, along with some two dozen other environmental activists, created Greenpeace.
By early February, Watson told me, he was preparing to order his navy back to port.
The visiting team lost opening duo Simon Katich and Shane Watson early on day four but Michael Hussey and Ponting were looking in control until the skipper was brilliantly run out by a direct throw from Andrew Flintoff having reached 66.
When the 24-hour lightning tour ends early Wednesday afternoon, Watson will have made at least eight television appearances and that many more on the radio.
What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM in the early 1950s on mainframe computers or the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft in the mid-1990s on Windows if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
So in early 1950, it set up a meeting with Thomas Watson Sr.
Mr. Watson said he got his nickname at an early radio performance during which the announcer asked the audience for a replacement for his given name, Arthel.
Watson, who jumped onto the music scene in the early 1960s, is considered influential among folk musicians for his brand of bluegrass, blues, country and gospel music.
Early scores from Joey Scullion and Johny Campbell edged them ahead before four scores from Watson gave them a 0-6 to 0-1 advantage.
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As Shane Watson and Simon Katich comfortably steered the Aussies to 25-0 in the early stages of their reply, the indications were not promising.
Anglican convert Nina Watson, 52, from Streatham, south London said she had left home in the early hours to embark on a coach trip to Birmingham.
What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the early 1950s on mainframe computers, the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in the mid-1990s on Windows, if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
In the early nineties, instead of simply claiming the side of morality, as he did after ramming the Sierra, Watson began to assert legal authority for his actions.
"Folks that have done the mea culpa, have stepped up early and said 'I made a mistake', they are not judged as harshly, " says Robert Watson, professor of American studies and author of Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex and Scandal.
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