Stone was asked whether a news service for Twitter was possible.

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Miss Cooney asked Mr Stone to write a pilot script for something called the Children's Television Workshop, which she had recently helped to set up and was designed to go out on the state-subsidised Public Broadcasting Service.

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The first thing I bought when I was asked to follow the Millennium Centre's foundation stone on its journey to Cardiff was a packet of sea-sickness tablets.

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In 2004 in the stone ages of CSR when paying clients were scarce, I was asked to help the Canadian arm of a multinational dairy and food corporation develop a cause-marketing promotion that would be featured on milk cartons.

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