Along the way, Shriver earned worldwide accolades and awards, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame's Founder's Award and nine honorary degrees.
It was Patrick Ricard's wish that the founder's French heirs remain at the helm of the group ever since Paul Ricard first commercialized pastis, originally produced as absinthe, in 1932.
But what also caught my eye was one of the supporting cast, a man who was probably second only to Steve Jobs in restoring Apple's fortunes after the co-founder's return to the company.
"We do this stuff for survival, " says Mary Andringa, Vermeer's co-chief executive and the founder's daughter.
As elsewhere, there are differences among Indonesia's Ahmadis over the meaning of their founder's claims to prophethood.
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Kodak's founder, Mr. Eastman, took his life at the age of 77 in what is now a museum celebrating the founder and Kodak's impact on photography.
At exactly half Carey's age, 37-year-old DuGan is the founder's handpicked successor.
Mulally's vision of "one Ford" is reminiscent of the company founder's.
The scientist, who shares this year's Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for describing how one cell divides into two, had given his founder's stock to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he has been director since 1997.
Meantime, new Creative Memories President Asha Morgan Moran, granddaughter of Antioch's founder, says there's still plenty of room to expand in the U.S., mostly in the South and East.
"Many of the demos and alternate tracks I heard when I first pulled the tapes were beautiful, stripped-down versions of the originals, which tended to bury the essence of his songs with overdubbed strings, choirs and horns, " said Cheryl Pawelski, Omnivore's founder and the set's producer.
"When you're the founder's son, it's always complicated, " says Newman, who didn't think Jonny was ready.
No doubt hundreds, even thousands, of these offspring are faithful to the founder's vision.
The magnificent mansion that sits atop one of those hills is the founder's most telling commitment to safety.
Worst of all were family-owned firms run by the founder's eldest son, with an average management score of 2.53.
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Mega further narrows the P2P ledge and fleshes out its founder's complex ambition.
She said Mee was defrauded by an order whose leaders orchestrated an effort to hide its founder's misdeeds from her aunt.
Names must be kept active, says Ferruccio Ferragamo, the founder's son who now runs Ferragamo, a leading shoe and accessory maker.
Only this week it was revealed, amid Israeli intelligence chuckles, that a Hamas founder's son had been a long-serving Shin Bet agent.
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This was initiated by Mr Tomiyama, the founder's grandson, who even went as far as to fire his own father from the board.
You can jump through to the 49th minute mark to hear the Linux founder's complaints, but be warned, family readership -- he drops the f-bomb.
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That publishing attitude has survived through the founder's sons and grandsons.
No doubt hundreds, even thousands, of these offspring are faithful to the founder's vision, but with complete certainty, we know that hundreds, even thousands, are not.
An entrepreneur or "grantor" gives an asset (usually founder's or pre-public offering stock) to a trust for his kids and takes back an annuity for himself.
So Rexrode asked Flanders whether he'd don one of the founder's trademark smoking jackets and surround himself with bunnies because ... well, just because he can.
He took control of the firm in 1996 when Mr Cantor was on a life-support machine, but only after a court battle with the founder's wife, Iris.
One other notable finding: firms with dispersed ownership scored best and performed best, whilst those owned and run by their founders or members of the founder's family performed relatively poorly.
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Investors piled into Fiat shares in the belief it would be easier for the group to sell its loss-making car manufacturer once the founder's grandson was no longer at the helm.
The powerful notion here is that initiating the succession process is the founder's choice, not his heir's, thus imbuing the elder with a sense of control--just when he needs it most.
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