"They told me to fire up the crowd ... get them fired up and give them some red meat, " he said.

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The passing of John Bierwirth, who led the Grumman Corporation in the seventies and eighties inspired me to fire up the wayback machine.

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When I spoke to Mayer for one of my books, Fire Them Up, she told me that she held up to 70 meetings a week.

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The minute or so he spent on his phone gave me just enough time to fire up my iPhone, check email, web stats, and incoming Tweets.

FORBES: Cell Phone Time Machine

Suppose you are like me, and once you fire up your laptop to check your email, you are in danger of spending the whole morning on the Net, doing increasingly useless things.

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