Arkin, now 60, was serving in the Israeli Defense Forces when his father started a small pharmaceutical distribution company.
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His father started a newspaper called O Globo in Rio in 1926, when Roberto was 21, and died three weeks later.
The business his father started builds floats for nearly all the parading Krewes in the area, in addition to renting tractors, repurposing old floats and holding events.
Mr Roy said his father started out as a physics teacher at Shawlands Academy in Glasgow, before completing a doctorate in the 1950s, which opened the doorway to his lengthy career as an academic and professor.
Whatever he said set off his father who started yelling at the boy.
His father Kapil Bhatia started modestly as a sales manager in a travel agency then established his own shop catering to the North Indian market.
In 1966, when he was 8, he joined his brothers in the band his father put together and started singing lead with brother Jermaine.
His family's Poonawalla Stud Farms, started by his late father and now run by him and his younger brother Zavary, has produced 287 winners of classic races to date.
The South Carolina native started with his father's big band at the age of 14.
He joined Claridge, the investment firm started by his father.
His father was murdered when he was eight months old, his mother started drinking not long after.
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Bell started working alongside his father in the 1950s, and had to stand on a milk crate to reach the dough.
Before del Toro started school, his father won the Mexican national lottery.
On a fishing trip Ciske met Ty A. Bernicke, a certified financial planner with an Eau Claire, Wis. firm started by his CPA father--a firm Ciske had heard good things about.
Emigrating to Sacramento in 1968 at age 16, after riots in Hong Kong threatened his father's business, Lee started high school without a word of English, skipping lunch for the first few weeks until he learned to point at what he wanted.
Immigrating to Sacramento, California in 1968 at age 16, after riots in Hong Kong threatened his father's business, Lee started high school without a word of English, skipping lunch for the first few weeks until he learned to point at what he wanted.
Wilson, a 54-year-old father of five, started his career with an outerwear company called Westbeach Snowboard in 1979.
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In the 1930s, when Fry was around 9 or 10, he said his father dragged him to the barn and started beating him with a horsewhip for no apparent reason.
She got involved in the profession after seeing her father struggle when he started losing his hearing.
The family later split up after his father legally returned to the United States and started another family there.
Having watched his father start his own wine business, Tom started visiting chateaux in South France from a young age.
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Speyer started the firm with his late father-in-law Robert Tishman in 1978.
Also for the first time since this started, my father is using his car.
His father agreed, and with a partner, they started an on-line business.
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At 19, Andrew started working at a knitting mill his father owned on Long Island, learning how fabrics are made and playing golf with the customers.
His father describes Walter Jr. as a hard worker who started at quarterback in high school one season, more out of grit than athletic ability.
Six hours after Lavin left town after receiving word of the death of his 82-year-old father, the Red Storm started slowly against No. 9 Syracuse, rallied hard in the second half, then faded late in a 77-58 loss.
Princeton grad, he started out as an underwriter at Progressive, which his father founded, in 1955.
He started shooting as a child during hunting trips with his father.
And his commitment started one day when he was sitting down with his father who was a chief from one of the towns in Sierra Leone.
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