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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
  Alan Sugar
Alan Michael Sugar was born on 24 March 1947, the son of a tailor.
Alan Sugar went to Brooke House School in London but left at 16 and was briefly a civil service statistician.
Alan Sugar has stated that his time at Spurs was "a waste of my life".
www.biogs.com /famous/sugar.html   (343 words)

  
 Sugar, Alan Michael
Sugar's IBM-compatible PC, launched in 1986 at a quarter of the price of leading market products, captured 25% of the European market.
Sugar was knighted in 1999, and the Sunday Times Rich List 2001 estimated his worth at £544 million.
In 1991 Sugar bought Tottenham Hotspur for £7 million in partnership with English coach Terry Venables.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0021859.html   (349 words)

  
 SIR ALAN SUGAR
Sir Alan Michael Sugar, KBE (born 24 March 1947 in Hackney, London) is a British businessman.
In 2005, Sir Alan became the star of the BBC reality show The Apprentice, in which he had the job of the boss, as Donald Trump had previously done in the US version.
Sir Alan Sugar is certainly not held up as a role model for UK bosses...
www.solarnavigator.net /sponsorship/alan_sugar.htm   (2194 words)

  
 BBC - Apprentice - The Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He may be from humble East End roots but Sir Alan Sugar has achieved a net worth of over £800m.
As well as showing the nation some basic rules of thumb for budding entrepreneurs, Sir Alan is one of the government’s team of figureheads who travel around schools and universities encouraging young people to have an entrepreneurial spirit.
Sir Alan is sure that if The Apprentice was around 30 years ago he would have won it.
www.bbc.co.uk /apprentice/board/index.shtml   (205 words)

  
 Sir Alan Sugar - NewBusiness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He registered Alan Michael Sugar Trading as Amstrad when he was 21 and went on to make a fortune selling basic, low-cost, computer technology to the masses.
The Alan Sugar roadshows acted as a pre-cursor to a wider call for entrepreneurs like him who can lead by example and pass on some of their skills and expertise to the next generation.
What Sugar rightly identified when he embarked on the roadshows is that people are more likely to listen to someone like him, who has built a business and understands what made it work, rather than an academic who can theorise.
www.newbusiness.co.uk /cgi-bin/showArticle.pl?id=108   (1197 words)

  
 Sir Alan Sugar - Money makers - Money - Virgin.net
Born in Hackney, east London, Sugar left school at 16 and took on a range of jobs - from civil service statistician to selling car aerials from the back of a van.
Sugar is a key player in the business and media world and one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs, which was recognised in 2000 when he was knighted for services to industry.
In 2005, he also revamped his media image in the reality TV show, The Apprentice, in which 14 young wannabe business-types are judged by Sugar to win a £100k job working for him.
www.virgin.net /money/moneymakers/sugar.html   (338 words)

  
 Sir Alan Sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sir Alan Sugar fires one of them each week until he says to the last one standing: "You're hired!" and awards the series winner a £100,000 job.
Sir Alan Sugar, 57, was born into a poor family in London's East End.
Sir Alan admitted in a recent interview that he hates reality television, considering it "bollocks", said that he hated the NBC show, that some of the contestants were unemployable, and referring to the producers as "bloody arty-farty, creative arseholes".
theinternetforum.co.uk /apprentice/siralansugar.html   (465 words)

  
 Sir Alan Sugar - Leaders In London Summit 2006 - Gen Colin Powell USA (Ret)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sir Alan was brought up in an East London council house, the youngest of four children.
He registered Alan Michael Sugar Trading as Amstrad in 1968 when he was 21 and went on to make a fortune selling basic, low-cost, computer technology to the masses.
Sir Alan has a very straight approach to business – be decent, be honest, be fair, work hard, don’t make excuses and learn from your mistakes.
www.leadersinlondon.com /bio_Alan_Sugar.asp   (605 words)

  
 Wikidpedia - The free online encyclopedia - amstrad
Amstrad is a manufacturer of electronics based in Brentwood in Essex, England and founded in 1968 by Sir Alan Michael Sugar in the UK.
Amstrad was founded in 1968 by its current Chairman and CEO, Alan Sugar.
Following the success of the UK version of the TV series The Apprentice Amstrad has also started producing animatronic Alan Sugar heads.
www.wikidpedia.org /?title=amstrad   (969 words)

  
 Card Games: Commercial Games
The pack consists of a single series of 60 cards numbered from 0 to 59, and the player of the highest card wins the trick.
This US geographical game was invented by Alan Fishel and published in 2004.
Older decks have 9 cards each of corn, wheat, oats, flax, rye, barley and hay; some new ones have 8 each of corn, oats, sugar, cocoa, barley and wheat.
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 amstrad satellite receiver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Daily Satellite News a takeover bid from its smaller rival Amstrad.
A representative of Sir Alan the low cost analogue satellite receiver.
Amstrad is an electronics company founded in by Sir Alan Michael Sugar in the United Kingdom and based in Brentwood in Essex England.
satellite-receiver.techabled.com /amstrad-satellite-receiver   (554 words)

  
 52nd City: August 2005
Working with remarkably vivid colors, the postcard for this Friday's opening (5-10 p.m.) shows why the artist is gaining notoriety throughout the Midwest, and beyond, with detailed work that's so sharp it seems to pop from the canvas, the images as crisp as photography.
With all due respect to curator Alan Brunettin's photos and paintings, it's a treat to see the visiting artist's work adorn the walls at Urbis.*
At Mad Art Gallery, Paul E. Jost and Peter Pranschke will show a work of paintings, digital imagery and multi-media illustrations.
www.blog.52ndcity.com /archives/2005_08.php   (1681 words)

  
 SUGAR
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Search one of the most up to date and comprehensive collections of this important information.
Also included online are over 3,200 modern day Knights and Dames, such as Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Michael Caine and Dame Judi Dench.
www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/Contents/book/UK/FHP/Peerage/fhp-SUGARALAN.asp   (167 words)

  
 The 2000 Squiddies
2: Brian Michael Bendis (Fortune and Glory); Elijah Snow (Planetary); Girl One (Top 10); Hitman; Jack Hawksmoor (The Authority); Jennie 2.5 (Channel Zero); Lucifer; Magical Witch Girl Bunny (Charm School); Midnighter (The Authority); Nightwing; Oracle; Orion; Tefe Holland (Swamp Thing); Thor; no award
2: Michael Dean; Alan David Doane; Ed Mathews; Alex Tam; Maggie Thompson; Larry Young
5: Brian Michael Bendis; Tony Isabella; Erik Larsen
www.squiddies.org /2000.html   (1805 words)

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