After a year or two it doesn't look like much, and too many people will take out the roots.
The precise modern calendar we take for granted has roots in ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Arabia and Rome.
Miller, a veteran of Cisco, is aiming to take Polycom from its roots selling Web cameras and conference phones, and make it more of a high-margin enterprise software company.
So it bought a license from second-generation owners of Italy's Tuscan's brand to use the name in Asia and the U.S., allowing it to take advantage of its Italian roots and 39-year-old history.
It will probably take a more egregious departure from its roots than Michelle Rhee to cause Change.org substantial harm.
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They must scale the near-vertical base by climbing rocks and tree roots like ladders -- or take a longer switchback trail -- and then begin an arduous hike uphill, sliding on mud and grasping at alders and shrubs to pull themselves up.
It will take years before we will see a grass-roots entrepreneur in China or India who could shake up the establishment as much as Steve Jobs did.
But credit will belong to a global constellation of digital entrepreneurs, and engineers at the likes of GM and Toyota, who compete to finally take the auto industry out of its 19th century roots.
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were concerned about the huge risks that pushing for civil rights posed for the Democrats' stronghold in the South -- still the electoral base of the party back then -- both were finally moved to take action because of the valiant efforts of grass-roots activists who placed pressure on them and on uncommitted legislators.
There was little need to put down roots in their new communities, they felt, or to take part in local or national government.
Companies like Apple and Google are innovative from their very roots, built to change the world and with people willing to take big risks.
Someone who can take a once great retail chain with tremendous geographical reach, strong legacy and roots in selling high margin hard to understand products and turn it into a profit center.
Motorola has its roots in the automotive industry and many innovations over the decades that we all take for granted were invented at MOT.
It didn't take long after Dr. No was released in 1963 that a popular spy genre formed stateside out of comedic roots.
Accompanied by bass and drums, Roberts spins out a lighthearted interpretation full of surprises: a staccato take on the title line, lush rolled chords that flow like honey, an insistent improvisatory flight with bebop roots.
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