After Howell lost, they moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where Griggs worked as a political consultant.
Griggs Group, the company that owns the Doc Martens trademark, went bad in 1993.
Professor Russel Griggs OBE, chair of the Scottish government's independent regulatory review group, will chair the trust initially.
Microsoft famously wiggled around Griggs by subjecting job applicants to verbal brain teasers.
They were backed by Max Griggs and they came up with the goods.
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But Mr Griggs is not particularly keen on stressing the usual touristy themes of skirling bagpipes and ruined castles.
Abramson and Griggs married in 1981, and have two children, Cornelia and Will.
The credit largely goes to Mike Griggs, hired as part of a management shakeup in 2005 as head of stores.
The victim, Jason Griggs, suffered multiple cuts and a broken finger in the attack, after a confrontation between him and Brown.
Mr Griggs hopes that the advent of the Scottish Parliament may encourage modern Scottish entrepreneurs to display a similar inventive spirit.
CNN's Mallory Simon, Edvige Jean-Francois, Shasta Darlington, Deb Feyerick, Matt Smith, Pierre Meilhan, Mike Mount and Brandon Griggs contributed to this report.
The education secretary insisted the regionalisation was "not a shotgun marriage or a forced marriage" but was a response to the report from Professor Griggs.
Like any good brand manager, Russell Griggs, executive director of Scotland the Brand, is hoping to get consumers to associate certain desirable qualities with Scottish produce.
Under Griggs' control the Northamptonshire club, formed from the merger of Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds in 1992, were the biggest spenders on and off the field.
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Mr Russell was giving a ministerial statement and answering questions on the independent reviews of college and university governance from Professors Russell Griggs and Ferdinand von Prondzynski respectively.
CNN's Brandon Griggs and Doug Gross contributed to this story.
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Mr Griggs says that extensive research in America, Europe and Japan has found that most people do seem to think, to varying degrees, that the Scots are honest and independent-minded.
CNNMoney and CNN's Brandon Griggs contributed to this report.
The review of college governance by Professor Griggs recommended the creation of 12 college regional clusters and the education secretary said he would accept the professor's new structure almost in its entirety.
Thirteen years ago, Abramson and Griggs bought an eighteenth-century house near Long Island Sound in Madison, Connecticut, where Scout, their golden retriever, frolics in the water and they can take long walks.
In 1986, Abramson became the editor of another Brill-owned paper, Legal Times, which was based in Washington, where Griggs was a press representative for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
Abramson graduated from Harvard and, after spending a year in the Boston bureau of Time, moved to Virginia, where she and Griggs worked for the gubernatorial campaign of the Democratic populist Henry Howell.
Speaking for that group, Tamara Griggs says older members, some of whom have been attending Renaissance Faires since the phenomenon began in 1966, have finally accumulated the means to make their dreams come true.
Brown, who has eight previous convictions for offences including theft and shoplifting, also admitted owning a dog which caused injury in a private place in the attack on Mr Griggs and possession of cannabis.
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