He was going to be a guru, a genius who would lead the modern corporation into the exciting new digital age.
Most of those working in what count as service jobs across Asia lead less modern and productive lives: shopkeepers, rickshaw-pullers, foot-masseuses, security guards, barbers, road-sweepers, dhobi-wallahs, lift attendants, rubbish-pickers and so on.
Like many modern gangsters, Frank wants to lead an orderly and loving family life and to keep it untainted by what he does.
Guerrero said the next pontiff should be a dynamic leader who can lead the church in a modern era beset by long-pestering problems such as poverty.
Still, Rubin conceded, it was a tally far behind that of the 30 million cumulative units of the iPad, which broke open the modern-day tablet category, extended its lead with the iPad 2, and will likely see another revision this coming spring.
These are the first national standards to require use of modern control technologies to reduce mercury, arsenic, lead, hydrochloric acid and other hazardous air pollutants from coal plants.
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In their bid to simplify loading 35mm film, Kodak, Fuji and other photographic firms squared off the 35mm roll's lead-in tab so a modern SLR's motor-driven loading mechanism could grab the film's sprocket holes and wind it automatically onto the take-up spool.
Its LexisNexis division invented modern electronic legal searches back in the 1970s but lost its lead to Thomson's West in the 1990s.
Individuals find it difficult to cope with the vast quantities of cash consumed by a modern nation state, and everyday rules of thumb can sometimes lead to utterly wrong conclusions.
The face of the modern Democratic Party, therefore, should not be those angry pessimists that now lead their minority Congressional delegations and party machines.
The US, Canada, Australia and most European countries have followed the UK's lead, with DNA profiling internationally regarded as the most important breakthrough in modern policing.
With respect to people who have made their lives in this very beautiful area, what would lead people to build a beautiful home in an area where, particularly with all the advantages of modern meteorological science, we know will at some point get hit by a pretty devastating hurricane?
"Mad Men" and "American Horror Story" lead this year's Emmy nominations with 17 nods apiece, while "Downton Abbey" and "Modern Family" round out the top of the pack -- plus a first-time nomination for Kimmel's own late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
He collaborated with Mies on New York's finest modern skyscraper, the Seagram Building, before embarking on a series of big buildings of his own that followed the lead of the talented young architects he courted, encouraged and commissioned in a process of patronage and exploitation that kept him creatively alive, borrowing shamelessly from their work for the hedonistic dilettantism that became his personal style.
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