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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

Success

Perhaps you’re tired of waiting the 20 seconds or so it takes your shower water to heat up. Between his taped-up prototype and the beginning of his current market prevalence, there were 15 years of rejections, lawsuits and near-bankruptcy, alongside thousands of prototype revisions. I’m a designer and engineer and maker of products.”

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Fox grew up in a loving, supportive family that settled in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after his father retired. That led to an investigation in 2002 as to whether some environmental factor played a role. This never took up more space than it needed. I had a desire to overcome that and get the most out of myself.”

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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

Success

As the legend of Wall Drug’s beginning goes, the first customers had already stopped into the store before Ted returned from putting up those signs. A fire in the restaurant’s kitchen in April 2002 forced the owners to scramble to become operational again before the summer rush. And the rest, it seems, is history.

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Thursday Morning & 20 Years of Celebrating You & Your Profession!

Office Dynamics

Joan came up on stage and began to discuss 20 Years Celebrating You & Your Profession. In 2002, they discussed Becoming a World Class Assistant hosted by Catepillar Inc. Joan noted that by 2013, all of these have grown in importance in the administrative world. And that brought us up to the present, 2013.

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