He cooked in the Italian style, learned during four years as a lecturer at an institute in Siena.
Here are four valuable lessons I learned from my experience that can get you thinking about whether you, and your business, are prepared for the unexpected.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.
This is mainly because in the last four years Africa has learned to relate to President Obama as a leader of another sovereign state and not as a relative of whom much is expected.
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Whether the ambition is to become an investment banker or a Starbucks barista, the dirty little secret is that nothing learned during the four (or five) fun-filled years on idyllic campuses has anything to do with either form of employment.
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It was in that kitchen that my artistic four-year-old daughter learned to paint.
Important issues to be examined will include the challenges facing the Convention, lessons learned over the past four decades, priorities and opportunities.
"I learned my lesson in four years, " Kronmiller says.
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The dangers of trading in rare wines was already apparent to Koch, who learned in 2005 that four bottles of French wine he believed had been once owned by Thomas Jefferson were fake.
This will provide the GOP with an important lesson that Democrats, with their head full of idealism and hope and change, have learned over the past four years: the limited ability of the President to control the economy.
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We slowed the game down and we have learned that over the past four years.
By meeting a useful man in 1941, he learned from scratch to fly four-engine aircraft.
For four months Swartwout and two other executives learned all they could about Plastron, reviewing reams of financial documents, meeting with its largest customers, talking to plant workers, hiring an environmental consultant to evaluate the site.
Also, he should have learned that each of the four times that marginal tax rates were reduced over the past 80 years, Federal tax revenues expanded briskly and the wealthy shouldered a greater and greater disproportionate share of the total tax bill.
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And also, does he think now, four years later, that Wall Street has learned its lesson?
And NPR's Tom Bowman has learned that in addition to the four we have known about, another four officers are expected to be implicated.
Panasonic, which introduced the market's first mirrorless compact system camera four years ago, said it took lessons it learned then to the U.S. to sell its Lumix cameras.
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As I look back over my career so far, I can safely say I have learned and grown more in the last four years than in the previous twenty.
However, the BBC learned she was told by a local newspaper four days earlier that at least five people had died.
During his four years at Toyota's helm, Toyoda has learned the hard way the costs of blindly pursuing growth, a strategy inherited from his predecessor that he ruefully acknowledges got him slammed by a cascade of recalls.
And the bonds that you've built and the lessons that you've learned on that field and in your "four years by the Bay" have prepared you to join and lead the finest fighting force in the history of the world.
In 1945 she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and spent four weeks getting her hands covered in oil and grease as she learned to drive and maintain military vehicles.
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The night I arrived, we dined with four delightful expat friends at a nice hotel restaurant, where I learned, among other things, that in 1992 a construction crew working for Ross Perot illegally blew up a coral reef so that he could moor his yacht, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep.
Here are the first four things that come to mind, when folks ask me what I learned.
In the luxury car showroom where we meet, four Soviet cars are attracting knowing smiles and recollections from Muscovites who have learned to aspire to better things.
The Flyers needed the good news after they learned All-Star forward Scott Hartnell is expected to miss four to eight weeks because of a broken left foot.
She learned our system (eagerly) and made suggestions that within four days produced the most accurate financial reports in her area of stewardship our company has ever seen.
Nor is it because Francona learned trade secrets from John Farrell, his pitching coach for four seasons with the Red Sox and who had previously been an Indians personnel director.
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The two dogs have learned to pipe down long enough for the county to dismiss the four citations.
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Kathmandu's residents have learned to live with much more deprivation than fuel rationing--four- to eight-hour power outages daily and an acute shortage of drinking water.
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