"Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could harness the power of the PC to improve people's lives, " Gates says earnestly.
The finger cymbals return and the revelation ends as it started, with nothing resolved.
Many of the immigrant founders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, started out with nothing but gumption.
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Frank, a former school teacher, had started out with nothing, built a small fortune, and lost a large chunk of it in the crash.
He started Baker Hosiery with nothing but a beat-up old knitting machine and some yarn.
"I thought we came out, we held our own the start of the game, had nothing to do with who started at the 4 or the 5, " Woodson said.
Now another has started, only this time it has nothing to do with politics.
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The sale of its education division brings McGraw Hill far closer to a total transformation of its business, a shift that started with the sale of beleaguered BusinessWeek to Bloomberg for almost nothing plus the assumption of debt.
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Singapore, Indonesia and Korea, not overvalued, have relative good charts but nothing close to South Africa which is in a bull market that started in 2009 with no meaningful correction.
There was some picketing by the local arts council and some unwelcome, unflattering news coverage, and neighborhood kids who cared nothing about Emily Dickinson or her house started egging the place and draping our noble birches with toilet paper, and for a while there it was like Halloween every day.
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