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Renishaw founder and Chief Executive Sir David McMurtry told BBC News he remained optimistic.
BBC: Engineering firm cuts 440 posts
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Author Larry McMurtry has been gathering books around him for more than five decades.
WSJ: Author Larry McMurtry Sets Auction of 300,000 Books
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Mr. McMurtry plans to keep close to 100, 000 books on the shelves of Booked Up, which will remain open.
WSJ: Author Larry McMurtry Sets Auction of 300,000 Books
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McMurtry, a retired Silicon Valley venture capitalist whose fund backed Microsoft in 1981 and Sun in 1982, was won over.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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McMurtry, assistant general counsel for Turner Broadcasting, says the number of domain names he will have to oversee will be in the hundreds.
FORBES: Um.whatever
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Without due diligence, though, "bad books just sort of sift in, like dust, " said Mr. McMurtry, who purges his collection at least once a year.
WSJ: Author Larry McMurtry Sets Auction of 300,000 Books
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It is based on a novella by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, with a screenplay co-authored by Pulitzer-winner Larry McMurtry, and stars Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger.
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"I first thought he was a slick salesman, " McMurtry says.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Mr. McMurtry, who built his inventory by buying up the stock of secondhand bookstores and personal collections around the country, said he also has selected 100 books of special interest to him for individual auction.
WSJ: Author Larry McMurtry Sets Auction of 300,000 Books
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Daniel Yergin, in his latest and arguably most promethean work, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, the human interest of an O.
FORBES: Daniel Yergin's The Quest: Human Ingenuity, Passion, the Fall of Caliphatism and the Rise of Prosperity