An ordinary person today still has the potential to catapult a startup company into an industry leader.
But while it was a fleet vehicle, it was prone to catapult the rider over the handlebars and cause serious injury.
After a lawsuit, Saverin ended up with 5 percent of the company, more than enough to catapult him into the billionaire ranks.
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"Fox" Fallon, is not the end of a career but a move calculated to catapult the former naval aviator into the Vice Presidential sweepstakes.
That's the magic number needed to catapult Upshaw to sports-labor royalty.
But is that enough to catapult it to the next level?
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His result here seems certain to catapult him into international stardom or at least stardom in those parts of the world that care about track and field.
If you expect a private money manager to catapult you and your nest egg onto the Forbes 400 Richest People in America list, take a deep breath.
What matters is that if news is sufficiently good or bad to catapult a company onto a magazine cover, then it is already reflected in the share price.
Can the Dodgers afford to retain each of the aforementioned ball players and can they attract additional talent to catapult the ball club ahead of the Giants and Diamondbacks?
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There are three main reasons why Apple's digital media adapter will trump its predecessors, but it may not yet be enough to catapult digital content into the living room the way the iPod did into our pockets.
As ever, the Windies looked to Gayle to kick-start their innings and the tall left-hander did not disappoint, as he smashed 36 runs off two overs from Tim Bresnan and Tremlett to catapult his team to 50-0 off five overs.
What's more, even with sagging ratings--Idol averaged some 25 million viewers this season, down from 30 million three years ago--the singing competition continues to catapult its host network to No. 1 among viewers aged 18 to 49, a demographic advertisers pay a premium to reach.
But even to my trend-defying, label-resistant outlook, the most stunning aspect of less than 20 minutes of runway confections was its potential to catapult the best of Scottish textile manufacturing and artisan craftsmanship into a big, opulent international league, far away from the land of austerity.
The sleek little start-up, a prototype of the type of company that is supposed to catapult Hong Kong into the information economy, has little in common with its creaking, clanking neighbor save one thing: here too, the air is filled with the smell of money going up in smoke.
Armed with good will and intentions and a collection of applicable skills to help entrepreneurial ventures, multinational corporations and non-profits catapult to success.
He's rigged up a catapult to his mini-fridge, a tiny elevator to carry the beers activate a doll with a remote control - and voila, a beer-tossing machine.
The steady development of the utility market and the quickly growing distributed generation segment will likely catapult China to become the largest solar market in 2013.
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If Democrats win control of the House, it will establish Kennedy as a key political player in Congress -- and catapult him to the forefront of his family's next generation of public figures.
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What's good about markets in this line of thinking is that they identify the incandescent geniuses among us and catapult them to the top where their innate brilliance is harnessed to improve the lot of mankind.
The discontent could well catapult the TMC to power but its vision for the state is still hazy.
That's why I'm proud to announce the launch of my team page on Catapult.org, a crowd-funding platform dedicated to supporting women and girls.
Last year, Mexican authorities seized a catapult that was used to launch bundled drugs, Lopez said.
The rooftop Insanity puts riders through 3-Gs of terror, the X-Scream is a teeter-totter suspended 866-feet above the sidewalk, and Big Shot is a 4-G vertical catapult that takes riders to 1, 081-feet above the Strip.
In May, the coalition said it was changing from its proposed "catapult and trap" planes to jump jets.
In general, Browne is relatively unknown and this exposure might just catapult him and his business to worldwide recognition.
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When Facebook goes public tomorrow at the highest value ever given to an American IPO, it will catapult the social media juggernaut into the ranks of the most highly capitalized digital companies.
"I haven't seen a single one of these things stick their initial landings or catapult a pre-existing series to new heights, " he said.
Mr Willetts announced the space Catapult in a speech that sought to lay out a vision for how the UK could maintain excellence in science and technology.
The new Catapult centre in satellite applications is intended to provide businesses with "access to orbit test facilities, to develop and demonstrate new technologies".
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