But Mr. Horn has garnered respect as he navigates the potentially treacherous waters of assigning release dates and giving feedback on projects he releases but whose production he doesn't directly supervise.
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The action, loosely based on a true story and filmed on location at and near a Utah university (and, briefly, in China), concerns Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a brilliant young astrophysicist from Beijing who travels to the United States for graduate study under Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), a scientist whose work he admires but whose best years and ideas are behind him.
Instead, he looks for companies whose business he understands, and where he sees income and growth potential for the next five, 10 or 20 years.
There he met a woman whose voice he instantly recognised: Ellen Margaret Graves, the radar operator who had been guiding his plane towards formations of enemy aircraft for the past two years.
Seeking more information, he called the couple at whose house he'd run into her.
Johnson also was guilty of believing that he was smarter than the consumers whose habits he was trying to break.
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It was the one where Jerry takes George to stake out a cute girl he met at a party but whose name he never got so he has to pretend to bump into her.
He met most of the artists whose works he owns because they lived in the downtown neighborhood where his gym is located and came to him as clients, enlisting in his old-school regimen of strength training, cardio and diet.
He talks about the endangered panther, whose tracks he was encouraged to see in Florida.
"He was intimidated by congressional isolationists, whose strength he tended to exaggerate, and was loath to challenge them, " Olson writes.
He wrote on a favorite old typewriter whose touch he trusted.
For all his prowess in the City, he never identified with its overprivileged elite, whose influence he saw as largely corrosive.
On Thursday he wrote in a newspaper column that he finds it difficult to talk with someone whose face he cannot see.
The late William Kunstler was once asked by Andy McCarthy why he never represented clients on the right with whose views he disagreed.
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In this regard, he might well listen to another American president whose name he hasn't invoked: Great social innovation, Thomas Jefferson wrote, shouldn't rest on slender majorities.
But in later years, in his market garden, he would dream of working with the orchestras whose professionalism he had briefly experienced before he went to war.
He met hundreds of Asian-American traders, whose names he would later add to fund-raising invitation lists.
He was trained well and then as the person whose job he was taking was ready to leave he turned to him and gave him three envelopes.
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Phil. at Oxford in philosophy when he took a job rigging spreadsheets to tell companies whose business he barely understood how to trim costs, and he feels sullied by it.
While he's spoken with some of the entrepreneurs whose startups he funded through those platforms, he says he opted to invest in them mostly based on information he found online, including founders' portfolio websites and social-media profiles, coverage of their companies by tech blogs, and comments about their products within the funding sites' discussion forums.
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He noticed that Glaxo had dropped Factive, a drug whose development he had spearheaded.
He sought advice from the saxophonist Steve Coleman, in whose band he eventually played.
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He may also regard with satisfaction the affront he has caused to France's banking elite, whose sensibilities he offended with tactical bursts of Flemish brusqueness.
"This is very serious, Joe, " he told retired US Air Force Col Joe Kittinger, whose records he was attempting to break, and who was acting as his radio link in mission control at Roswell airport.
The longer he can withhold information, the more chance that those associates whose locations he knows can get away or change their plans.
When he showed up on the first day he spent a great deal of time learning from the person whose job he was taking.
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It also calls into question Gingrich's claim that he's no Jim Wright--the Democratic Speaker whose ouster he spearheaded--because he never sought to line his own pockets.
The Central American speaks of Julia Kristeva (he winks at Sollers as he mentions that eminent Bulgarian), he speaks of Marcelin Pleynet (whom he has already met), and of Denis Roche (whose work he claims to be translating).
And he has started to cosy up to several left-wing mayors whose ambitions he used to mock.
And there he met Erma, his sweetheart for over 70 years, by whose side he will now rest for eternity.
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