Some of us had new Macs, some had high-powered notebooks, and some unfortunate souls had to pedal furiously under their desks to keep a spark running through their extinct models.
By the 1960s Muriel Spark guided readers through a new metropolis, where women gushed at the thought of sex and film stars, and penned unanswered letters to famous writers.
Bijan Sabet, our lead investor, is somebody who back when I was running my little consulting company, before Tumblr, we were a little software company called Davidville and I was working on a bunch of start-ups at the time, a couple start-ups that got funded both through Spark Capital and Bijan.
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The Recovery Act will double the supply of renewable energy, but the only way to truly spark an energy transformation is through a gradual, market-based cap on carbon pollution so that energy, clean energy is the profitable kind of energy.
Barrie, or those on the cusp of modernism through the recent Muriel Spark biography by Martin Stannard?
How did that fire spark the massive explosion that tore through the northern part of town -- killing 14 people, including nine first responders, and injuring hundreds of others?
When the connection is broken, current cannot flow without travelling through the air (a spark flying).
The fast-ignition technique is more like a petrol engine: first the fuel is compressed and only then is it ignited by a second laser pulse acting as a spark plug that is fired through a hole in the pellet.
This generational tension is not easily resolved, but watching history unfold even through a television drama can help spark a richer dialogue.
The world economy's other weak link, Japan, faltered half-way through 2004 and despite the odd spark has not yet sputtered into life again.
By making them valued members of society through education, it will help to spark a change against the deep-rooted social injustices currently in existence.
One recent afternoon a man from Heavener, Okla. calls Spark to complain that a woman he's met through one of its 25 dating sites--a gal who shared his passion for riding all-terrain vehicles--isn't responding to his e-mails.
Levy believed that the U.S. economy would, through a succession of business cycles, reignite and spark the higher profits that are the fuel of rising share prices.
The EDL had originally planned to march through Bradford, prompting fears that its presence could spark unrest like the riots which hit the city in 2001.
And the single biggest reason why so many companies eventually lose that essential spark of innovative passion as they grow is a failure to institutionalize--through mission, culture and methodology--these critical ingredients.
Word game Quarrel finally reaches the Xbox console through the Xbox Live Arcade, some four years after the first spark of innovation that saw anagrams mixing with Risk, and two years after the code was completed.
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The goal injected a spark into the play of Manchester City, whose best hopes of making Europe are through the Intertoto Cup or Uefa's Fair Play award.
It seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions.
But the Reds failed to spark early on apart from the lively looking Bellamy and it was down to Bordeaux to threaten through Johan Micoud's header.
Perhaps as important, the Internet is a fund-raising tool that allows candidates to quickly scoop up large amounts of money, if they strike a spark with voters, without having to rely as much on the traditional, time-consuming slog through fund-raising events night after night.
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