• The self-taught, Mexican-born dog trainer has parlayed his talent for calming even the most vicious of dogs into a hit TV show, a series of best-selling books, and a mass market line of collars, leashes, beds and pet food.

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  • Zuckerman is self-made, the Montreal-born son of a tobacco and candy wholesaler.

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  • Still, Barack Obama has long seemed in a class of his own when it comes to his self-confidence, seemingly born of a charmed life of extraordinary opportunities and, by and large, a lack of accountability for his actions.

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  • Christopher Doyle is a self-taught Sydney-sider who was born in 1952 but who has spent most of his life in Hong Kong.

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  • Together these pioneers have created a set of self-reinforcing strategies and tactics that addressed some of the short comings of the first crop of e-commerce companies born before 2000 as well as the reality of the retail business itself.

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  • Born out of an agency, profitable, and self-funded with 60 employees, eTrigue helps marketing build more intelligent social and traditional media campaigns.

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  • The PCOM was born in the late 1930s as a desperate act of self-defense by West Texas cotton farmers, who at the time could hardly give their seed away.

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  • "Of a population of 75.4 million self-identified Catholics in the US, 22.2 million (30%) were born outside the United States, " he says.

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  • As a self-employed video producer, maybe I should have worried about expenses after the baby was born, since I had no paid maternity leave.

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  • For now this self-described "boring couple" say they look forward to the day their children would be born and raised in a post-DOMA world.

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  • Dr Mahathir, himself born into the family of a struggling small-town headmaster, is a self-made Malay politician, in contrast to the aristocrats who dominated after independence from Britain in 1957.

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  • The boy was born, and the little triad was sighted on Seventy-eighth Street, always self-reliant and self-contained, always in a hurry.

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  • In sum, it appears Googleopoly has grown so accustomed to being able to dictate to everyone which information they should accept as most relevant, that they have scant self-awareness when their message does not pass the laugh test with a principled audience that was not born yesterday.

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  • He was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois and died in 1961 in Idaho of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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