He took it as a stage name when he started performing magic, as a teen-ager.
Rather than join the five other members of his family who had become lawyers, he took it.
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When La Crepe went under, there was still two years on the lease, so he took it over.
He took it seriously to be a student and a college kid who enjoyed being a college kid.
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So when he took it, Mr Koizumi did his utmost to make the deployment as uneventful as possible.
He wasn't sure it would work, so he took it across the campus to molecular modeling expert Michael Klein.
"He took it as a huge slap in the face, " Ms. Rampage recalls.
Four months later, a position at Edwards opened up, and he took it.
He took it badly and was down for a long time, but he is a strong character and eventually bounced back.
He took it over from a fellow who groomed him for it, but he has never taken on a protege himself.
When he took it to Broderbund software, he was told to turn it into a game that could be won or lost.
And he took it one step further with a shout-out to Boston.
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After weighing the bass at a post office, he took it home and fed his family of six on it for two days.
He took it gently apart, as far as he could fillet 3, 200 pieces with his pocket tool, and each time attempted to get further.
The idea, as he took it, was that sculpture might present materials themselves in ways which did not mean carving or cutting into them.
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When asked to launch the Daily Star - the first new national tabloid for 75 years - he took it to more than a million copies within a year.
He took it personally, as he puts it, but it's not all about stopping the flow of oil money - the man also has a green streak a mile wide.
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He chipped to within six feet but Fasth, a Ryder Cup player in 2002, had an opening and this time he took it to seal his fourth European Tour title.
He took it with him into the mountains to scorn it, delighted if he could catch it in error, even if that error was to his own detriment and that of his climbing companions.
Pettitte, who was excused from Wednesday's hearing, issued a statement shortly before the session started and acknowledged using human growth hormone in 2004, in addition to his December admission that he took it for two days in 2002.
He said his girlfriend told him to pick it up in a doggy bag to ensure he did not touch the ear, which he took it back to his flat before calling the non-emergency police number.
Another hold to love put Federer within a game of the 23-minute opening set and he took it at the second time of asking by unleashing a rasping cross-court backhand to pass Soderling at the net.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- In 1986 Italian journalist Carlo Petrini was so disgusted by the sight of a McDonald's at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome that he took it upon himself to lead the fight against fast food.
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