While in Washington on Friday, he sat down to talk about the job that he started early this year.
He started in the early 1960s as a salesman of western wear shirts and jeans.
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Two of the five recruits he started with dropped out early on.
When he started carving in the early 20th century, his ducks had what were considered flaws at the time--thin necks that often snapped when handled.
With American, he started throwing penalty flags early in the case.
He was not only much more hard-working than his elder brother (he started kindergarten a year early and graduated from the University of Texas in two-and-a-half years).
Charles Woo, head of MegaToys, says that he encouraged other toy companies to move close to him when he started up in the early 1980s because they could share suppliers and meet the demand if orders came in too fast.
He started working there in the early 1940s, before serving in the World War II.
When the financial crisis hit, he started buying, and the early results of his work are now in.
Ford, he knew, had started in the early 1970s to build one of the world's leading research efforts in ceramics.
He told the GMC hearing, which started last month, how he backed the introduction of MMR as early as 1986, at a time when Britain's measles vaccination programme was lagging behind even Third World countries.
He started at the social networking firm as an early intern when he was still in high school and there were a dozen employees.
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He started out in the 125cc class in the early 2000s before moving up to MotoGP in 2006, and won the world title the following year and again in 2011.
He started on his first whirligig at home in the early 1980s and spent about 10 years building other large ones.
Brush, who worked for nine years as a strategy executive at Cigna, the fourth-largest U.S. health insurer, started the firm in early 2011 because he saw the opportunity to help remake the healthcare system as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
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After he came to office in early 2011, Mr Faizov started to remove conservative imams and banned religious textbooks from Saudi Arabia, whereas his predecessor had largely left the Salafists alone.
His steely demeanor and tight focus may be a result of the fact that he started his Singapore-based Strategic Intelligence Ltd. in early 1998, when Asia's financial crisis was reaching full bloom.
He started out in the trough of the recession with just five staffers early on--and an old-fashioned telemarketing approach.
The jinx struck again before the tournament started as he sprained his ankle, causing him to sit out the early pool games, but his influence on England's fortunes, in partnership with 36-year-old veteran inside center Catt, has been undeniable.
Dawson told the Archive of American Television in a 2010 interview that his trademark move started early on in the show's run, when he saw a woman shaking as she struggled to come up with the name of a green vegetable.
He says he sees doctors using the medicine early on, before the beta cells have started to deteriorate.
The band started out playing at Columbia University fraternity parties while he was a student there in the early '80s.
Chasing a first win since mid-November, Falkirk started brightly and Lee Bullen forced Graeme Smith into an early diving save when he guided a header through a crowded penalty box.
Pompey started the match brightly and Ciftci's early strike - which came after he took a short corner from the right to Matt Ritchie before getting the ball back and beating Royals goalkeeper Adam Federici with a right-footed drive - was deserved.
"It started with my early attempts to build all sorts of things with Meccano, " he told BBC News.
Flu cases started going up early, toward the end of November and the beginning of December, he said.
The mere expectation that he would participate in next month's Hawaii Ironman championship in Kona started people booking hotel rooms as early as March.
But in the early 1990s, he moved on to the more cosmopolitan South African jazz scene, and things started to click.
Lamb started shakily with the boot missing a straightforward penalty in front of the posts early in the game but he composed himself to put in an assured performance.
Major General McColl started his army career in 1973 when he was commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment and his early appointments included spells in Cyprus, Norway, Northern Ireland and Belize.
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