His parents were solidly working-class: his father was a lathe operator, while his mother was an accountant.
Mr Jones has said it would be run by an independent operator on his government's behalf.
Mr McCarthy enjoyed a reputation as a tough operator during his four years as head of energy watchdog Ofgem.
"Neither the crane operator nor his supervisors made sure the operation was being performed according to approved plans, " city Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri said in a statement.
Then Carlos Slim Helu, the famous Mexican investor, aided by his stake in cell phone operator American Movil, wrested the crown from Gates.
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Unlike King Lear who ended up in tatters, raving on the beach, Murdoch can walk away as a great operator undone by his grubby news hounds.
His biggest holding, wireless operator America Movil, is up 4% since it announced earlier this month that it was in talks to buy a third of Olimpia, the holding company that controls Telecom Italia.
Humbled by his brief sojourn as a coal miner, he turned over his equipment to an experienced operator and retreated to the more predictable--and insulated--business of collecting a royalty on every tonne that came out of his ground.
Humbled by his brief sojourn as a coal miner, he turned over his equipment to an experienced operator and retreated to the more predictable--and insulated--business of collecting a royalty on every ton that came out of his ground.
His biggest holding, wireless operator America Movil (nyse: AMX - news - people ), is up 4% since it announced earlier this month that it was in talks to buy a third of Olimpia, the holding company that controls Telecom Italia (nyse: TI - news - people ).
One month after merging his telecom holdings with Russian mobile phone services operator, Vimpelcom, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has announced that he is giving up his role as the executive chairman of Orascom Telecom in order to pursue his political ambitions.
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It was founded by the late Mr. Chng Kee, a former soya salesman, who ran the business with his wife, a soya production operator.
It was revealed that the submarine's sonar operator had admitted that his work had been hindered by the civilians that had been on board the vessel.
Mr Greenspan is a skilled political operator: he knows his every utterance is scrutinised for nuances and he would not want to be blamed for publicly undermining the president's economic strategy.
Enter web-comic celebrity Randall Munroe (of xkcd), and his friend Ellen, Senior Reactor Operator at the Reed Research Reactor, who have put together some charts which might help us make sense of all this radiation talk.
Todd Palin quit his oil field job as a production operator for BP in 2009.
"Goode's Field Road" is about a junkyard operator who commits suicide so his wife and kids can get his insurance.
He told the operator he had spent all his money because it was Christmas and was struggling to get home.
Similar questions arose in his earlier incarnation as a Canadian theater operator.
His first project, "Tour Operator, " presented a global vision of domesticated landscapes where humans appear slightly out of step with the environment they created.
There he met a woman whose voice he instantly recognised: Ellen Margaret Graves, the radar operator who had been guiding his plane towards formations of enemy aircraft for the past two years.
Though widely acknowledged as a pragmatic operator who is excellent at his job, life at the Premier League helm has certainly not been all plain sailing for Scudamore and he has deep experience in riding various storms of controversy.
An M60 machine-gun operator rests for a moment with his heavy load of ammunition.
Then he tried his hand as a franchisee for another Quebec operator, Provi-Soir, but chafed at the corporate mandates.
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Angel Rodriguez is a musician, community activist and one-man tour operator whose long grey ponytail betrays his affection for the 1960s.
The Fed chairman is a skilled political operator and he was careful to focus his testimony on the long term.
Korean immigrant celebrated 50th anniversary of the founding of his privately held Maruhan, Japan's largest operator of pachinko parlors, last June.
His successor, John Snow, is a smoother operator but has little heft.
He worked odd jobs, as a cart boy at a golf course, a ski-lift operator and a janitor (he uses his janitor ID as his Twitter avatar).
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It's an ugly turn of events for Blankenship, a brilliant, gutsy operator with an unfortunate tendency to shoot off his mouth.
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