No. 151 Marian Ilitch and husband Michael opened a pizza shop in 1959 and grew it into the Little Caesar's Pizza chain.
Twins Ian and Stuart Paton, 49, who already held the British record, grew it at their nursery in Lymington in the New Forest, Hampshire.
After the bailout, they owned their own homes, they didn't pay into a corporate energy grid, and they didn't worry about food because they grew it on the roof.
And the thing we found out is that when kids play a role in what they do, they're much more inclined to try new stuff if they grew it.
Most importantly, in 2000, Google AdWords was launched, and as revenue grew it became clear that Google was fundamentally an ad company, and that search was just the content vehicle that drew in traffic.
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ATI, based in Texas, started as a small operation 50 years ago that eventually turned into a major money maker for the entrepreneurs that grew it to as many as 23 schools across five states, including seven in Texas.
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"We really grew it enormously when satellite channels began concentrating on sports, Sky specifically in the UK. Before that we had to own production ourselves otherwise we were always at the mercy of the BBC or TV in Spain, and it's a very difficult sport to televise, " he said.
Each year it grew higher, and finally it surrounded the entire castle and grew so thickly beyond it that not a trace of the castle was to be seen, not even the flag on the roof.
The Internet dug its roots in the fertile soil of higher education, and as it grew, it changed college life forever.
Few would doubt that 2012 was Android's year given how rapidly it grew, but it's good to have some context.
It had been too big then, but his mom had pinned it and taped it to make it work until he grew into it.
Once the business grew, it became more operational, and that wasn't one of his friend's strengths.
But although the game grew globally it was still something experienced and absorbed locally.
Viral email grew because it takes two to email and most people are paired with very many others.
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The display grew and grew until it included more than 700, 000 lights and 2, 000 feet of miniature train track.
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As Netflix grew, it not only benefited from the growth in the U.S. movie rental market, it also stimulated it.
But as the clamour for female emancipation grew, it shook what happened in the home, as well as in politics.
For many years, economists have observed that as agrarian societies industrialised, pollution increased at first, but as the societies grew wealthier it declined again.
Dozens of words, none of them synonymous, described the look of a hill, the angle of slope and the way trees grew upon it.
Debt investors are usually sober types, but as the bubble grew, it was increasingly their urges, and not the creditworthiness of homeowners, that determined loan-underwriting standards.
The storm started with a massive solar flare Tuesday evening and grew as it raced outward from the sun, expanding like a giant soap bubble, scientists said.
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But the West's advantage grew as it became more complicated.
But beyond the trading of energy futures contracts back and forth--all with huge notational values--Enron's sales grew because it was a "market maker, " serving as the middleman on deals.
As the number of brands grew, it became increasingly more difficult to pull together the financials (which each brand was doing differently, using different systems and assumptions) at the end of every month and quarter.
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