People wouldn't know who he was - we wanted to give him a taste of the real life.

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Treasury Secretary Paulson wanted Congress to give him a bazooka big enough that he might not have to use it.

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His lawyers wanted proceedings to be halted for a year to give him time to recover.

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Now Baltimore was in another Super Bowl and Ogden was suddenly in that spotlight and Ravens fans in New Orleans were going to give him a rowdy ovation whether he wanted one or not.

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He also said he wanted to give Yankees fans around the major leagues a chance to see him one more time, knowing this will be the end.

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Johnson, a history buff, wanted to give the company a name that would sound stable, important, trustworthy and would enable him to attract top developers.

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At GM, he consolidated SAP systems, which should give him more clout with customers "Microsoft has wanted to be viewed like IBM--a strategic enterprise vendor, " Helm says.

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