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	Bernard Marcus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernard Marcus (born 1929 in Newark, New Jersey) is a co-founder of Home Depot and philanthropist.
		Marcus almost single-handedly funded and launched the new Georgia Aquarium that opened in downtown Atlanta, Georgia in 2005.
		Bernie Marcus also funded and founded The Marcus Institute, a nationally recognized center of excellence for the provision of comprehensive services for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Marcus (354 words)

	FindLaw - Employment Agreement - The Home Depot Inc. and Bernard Marcus
		Marcus and his Affiliates currently occupy on the 21st floor of Building C of the Home Depot facilities, together with such additional space on the same floor up to a total of fifty percent (50%) of the 21st floor, and Mr.
		Marcus shall continue to pay the existing Base Rent until the index necessary to perform the calculations described herein is published, and Home Depot is able to calculate the revised amount of Base Rent due from Mr.
		Marcus shall also pay within thirty (30) days after such calculation the difference between what they have paid in Base Rent for the year in question and what they would have paid, had the adjustment in question been made and Base Rent at the adjusted rate paid as of January 1 of said year.
	allbusiness.findlaw.com /agreements/homedepot/marcus.emp.2001.02.22.html (2250 words)

	Marcus & Shapira LLP- Bernard D. Marcus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Marcus has tried numerous multi-million dollar commercial litigation cases in state and federal courts throughout the country.
		Marcus served as defense liaison counsel in antitrust class action and related opt-out litigation transferred to the Western District of Pennsylvania by the Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation.
		Marcus served as lead counsel for a group of corporate and individual defendants in the Phar-Mor Securities Litigation which was comprised of 40 consolidated suits involving hundreds of millions of dollars in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
	www.marcus-shapira.com /html/marcus.html (261 words)

	More Investigations and Preparations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bernard is worried about an attack, and Ethelric says that the guard is not needed because "he" is already dead.
		Patience tells Marcus that Claude is of the opinion that the spirit is gone from his room; Marcus thinks that he should avoid the inconvenience (to Bernard) of having Bernard move his things back there again.
		Angelique draws Marcus aside, and asks to spend some time with the 4 objects he had that had "connections" elsewhere, and that he accompany her to see if her results are reasonable to him.
	www.dabbler.com /mythtower/chron006.htm (2577 words)

	Babson College - Arthur M. Blank and Bernie Marcus (Home Depot)
		The Home Depot, co-founded by Blank and Bernard Marcus, has grown since 1979 to 350 stores in the United States and Canada, with total sales in 1994 exceeding $12 billion, by far the largest home improvement retailer in the United States.
		Bernard Marcus, the son of Russian immigrants, put himself through the Rutgers College of Pharmacy and worked in pharmaceutical sales before switching to retail and then later to hardware retailing.
		Both Blank and Marcus are frequently found wearing the distinctive orange apron (competitors refer to The Home Depot as "agent orange") and jeans as they visit stores throughout the southern, western, and northeastern United States.
	www3.babson.edu /ESHIP/outreach-events/Blank-and-Marcus-Home-Depot.cfm (506 words)

	Lippincott Mercer \| CEO Interviews \| Bernard Marcus
		But chairman and CEO Bernard Marcus insists the key to the company's growth isn't only its product line, but also its people: "I'm always asked how we find the kind of people who staff our stores, who wear the orange aprons," says Mr.
		Marcus earned a degree in pharmacy from Rutgers University only to embark on a career in home improvement.
		Marcus serves on the board of several corporations, nonprofit organizations and educational institutions.
	www.lippincott-margulies.com /publications/i_marcus.shtml (1525 words)

	EP Associations - The Marcus Institute - Partnering with the Kennedy Krieger Institute brings services to underserved ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A generous donation from Bernard Marcus—the entrepreneur behind Home Depot who is also a philanthropist and co-founder (with his wife Billie) of the Institute—enabled a formal partnership in 1998.
		As a result of this merger, the Marcus Institute has become the cornerstone of a long-range plan envisioned by KKI to establish a national network of developmental behavioral services for children with neurological disorders and to heighten awareness regarding disabilities within communities and legislative systems governing them.
		Prior to the establishment of the Marcus Institute, children with developmental disabilities living in the Southeast region of the US were diagnosed and treated somewhat inconsistently.
	www.eparent.com /resources/associations/marcus_krieger.htm (1452 words)

	UJC - Bernard Marcus to Address UJC's 2004 Leadership Forum
		Marcus served as chairman of the board of Home Depot until his retirement in May 2002.
		The centerpiece of Marcus' involvement in the Jewish community is his ongoing concern for Israel's survival and economic well-being and self-sufficiency.
		He serves on the board of trustees of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and was instrumental in the development of The Marcus Jewish Community Center in Atlanta.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=119239 (601 words)

	CDC Turns to Private Aid to Stay Healthy
		When Marcus, the former Home Depot executive, first got involved with the Atlanta-based CDC in the late 1990s, the agency was scattered across almost two dozen locations.
		When Marcus learned of this last spring, he wrote a check for $3.9 million to allow the agency to quickly purchase the latest satellite phones, global positioning receivers and other high-technology gear to prevent a recurrence of the communications flout it suffered in the New York crisis.
		Marcus is not going to show up every two years and update the equipment," said Koplan, the former CDC director.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/Bioter/cdcprivateaid.html (1687 words)

	Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Bernard Marcus to Address Georgia Tech Graduates
		Marcus’ civic involvement has been translated into the creation of the Marcus Foundation, where he serves as chairman of the board.
		In 1991, Marcus and his wife Billi established The Marcus Institute, which provides programs for children and adolescents with disorders of the brain and their families.
		Marcus serves in numerous leadership roles including the Shepherd Spinal Center, The City of Hope, The Marcus Jewish Community Center, and Business Executives for National Security.
	www.gatech.edu /news-room/release.php?id=961 (513 words)

	Marcus Institute: WXIA 11Alive Community Service Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bernard Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot and generous benefactor to The Marcus Institute was honored for a lifetime of achievement.
		Marcus' son, Fred Marcus, accepted the award presented by Brenda Wood on his behalf.
		A number of The Marcus Institute staff and faculty were on hand to witness the presentation, on this most formal of occasions.
	www.marcus.org /kki_news.jsp?pid=2530 (149 words)

	Bernard Marcus (with Wilma)
		When Bernard Marcus was laid off from a subsidiary of Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers at age 49, he didn¹t look for another job.
		Marcus is also attempting to alter politics in the Middle East through a think tank he chairs called Israel Democracy Institute.
		Marcus is also working to link the Israeli economy to his home state.
	www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/mojo_400/88_marcus.html (569 words)

	Bernard Marcus \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Marcus and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank met while they were both working at a California-based home improvement chain.
		After a decade of disagreements about that chain's future, Marcus and Blank went out on their own, determined to start a new chain with a family-like environment for employees that would revolutionize the home improvement market.
		By the end of Marcus' tenure, Home Depot stores numbered 624 and sales reached a level of $24.2 billion.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/563 (97 words)

	Marcus Bloom
		Marcus’ file was lying unopened on Buckmaster’s desk (he had given shooting and riding as his hobbies!); he stared for a few moments at Marcus and then said, “Tell me fully what you were doing in France for five years” [8].
		Marcus was given a short leave; his mother was no fool and realised there was some French connection and that this meant dangerous work somewhere behind enemy lines.
		According to Bernard Bloom’s research, one morning some weeks later (probably about 18th/19th October), Marcus was warned to prepare himself and that night was put aboard a naval motor torpedo boat with his colleague, and taken in darkness to a submarine lying offshore, which they boarded.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/bloom.html (6095 words)

	What feds won't give CDC, Marcus will
		Atlanta philanthropist Bernard Marcus is trumping the federal budget process, pledging $3.9 million so the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can buy equipment to handle bioterror emergencies.
		Marcus, a board member of the CDC Foundation, was moved to make the gift after hearing that CDC staff members who arrived in New York on Sept.
		Marcus is a member of Friends of the CDC, a group of high-profile business people -- including Kent "Oz" Nelson of UPS and Phil Jacobs of BellSouth -- who have lobbied Congress to fund the CDC's rebuilding plan.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/fedsCDCmarcus.html (510 words)

	Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: The Marcus Foundation Gives $15 Million to Tech
		The commitment was triggered by the state of Georgia’s recent allocation of $38 million for the facility, which completes the state’s total project commitment of $45 million.
		Bernard Marcus, the civic leader and philanthropist whose vision and investment made the Georgia Aquarium a reality, is also founder of the Marcus Foundation and serves as its chairman of the board.
		Coupled with a $5 million commitment from the Woodruff Foundation last year, the Marcus Foundation’s $15 million commitment pushes the total of private funds for the project past the $20 million mark, the minimum amount required to begin construction.
	www.gatech.edu /news-room/release.php?id=1001 (654 words)

	Kommerstad Speakers Forum
		Bernard is co-founder of The Home Depot, Inc., the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States.
		From September 1972 to April 1978, Marcus was chairman of the board and president of Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers, an operator of approximately 70 home improvement retail stores in the western United States.
		Bernard received a B.S. degree in merchandising and marketing from the School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University.
	www.centerforbusinesslaw.org /speakers.html (683 words)

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		The primary recipients work in the areas of medicine, Judaism, free enterprise, and children, and Marcus is known both for his willingness to help grantees raise other funds and also for his unwillingness to give to anything he hasn't researched in detail himself.
		Marcus: This is probably the most frightening aspect of the crisis.
		Marcus: I think one of the most important things CEOs and philanthropic foundations can do is educate the public, media, and government officials about the extent of the legal crisis.
	www.philanthropyroundtable.org /printarticle.asp?article=825 (2524 words)

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		MARCUS FOUNDATION GIVES $4,500,000 TO SUPPORT EMORY RESEARCH IN The Marcus Foundation of Atlanta will give $4,500,000 over the next two years to establish the Marcus Chair in Vascular Medicine and the Marcus Vascular Research Fund in the Emory University School of Medicine.
		In addition, scientists are increasingly theorizing that many degenerative diseases and conditions ranging from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease to heart failure and impotence are caused to an important extent by diseases of the small blood vessels that ultimately deliver oxygen and nutrients and remove waste from every organ.
		Marcus' vision encompasses discoveries which could increase longevity and improve quality of life for our present generation and for generations to come."
	www.whsc.emory.edu /_releases/2000december/marcus_gift.htm (407 words)

	There's no place like Home Depot - Company Profile Nation's Business - Find Articles
		On opening day, Marcus and Blank gave their kids a wad of 700 $1 bills and stationed them by the entrance to hand out the money as thank-you gifts to shoppers.
		That was the day that a satisfied customer unexpectedly returned with a bag of okra for Marcus, her way of saying thank-you for the shopping experience she had had at Home Depot.
		As a transplanted New Yorker, Marcus says, he didn't really appreciate okra on a culinary level, but he did savor it as a sign that the fleding enterprise was on the right track.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1154/is_n2_v80/ai_11826618 (881 words)

	Mike Leven Finds New Purpose
		Established by Home Depot cofounder Bernard Marcus, the foundation funds institutions as disparate as the Centers for Disease Control, the Marcus Institute (an Atlanta facility for children with disabilities) and the Georgia Aquarium.
		The Marcus Foundation "runs the gamut from entrepreneurship to educating inner-city kids to Israel support to children and medical research," Leven says.
		Although his contract with USFS ran until fall 2007, Leven took the new job because he badly wanted to and because Bernard Marcus couldn't wait.
	www.lhonline.com /article/14343/related/10010 (385 words)

	SportingNews.com Fantasy Source - NFL : It all starts on the inside for dominant Seattle D
		You'd have to be a real NFL die-hard to recognize names like Cedric Woodard, Rocky Bernard, Marcus Tubbs and Rashad Moore.
		Linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski's five tackles led the team, and Bernard had a sack and Moore a fumble recovery.
		Bernard, in his third NFL season, is the biggest surprise of the bunch.
	fantasy.sportingnews.com /nfl/articles/20040927/569805.html (480 words)

	The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans: Bernard Marcus
		Atlanta, GA Born in 1929 to Russian immigrant parents, Bernard Marcus grew up in a tenement in Newark, New Jersey.
		Marcus says the reason he has surpassed his competitors is his commitment to customer service.
		Marcus is also one of the founders of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Members By Name
	www.horatioalger.com /members/member_info.cfm?memberid=mar93 (499 words)

	Georgia Aquarium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1991, he and his wife Billi established The Marcus Institute, which provides programs for children and adolescents with disorders of the brain and their families.
		Marcus serves in numerous leadership roles including The Shepherd Spinal Center, The City of Hope, Business Executives for National Security and the Israel Democracy Institute.
		In the summer of 2000, Bernie Marcus (co-founder of The Home Depot) and the Marcus Foundation sought Swanagan as an advisor on the gift of a potential aquarium.
	www.georgiaaquarium.org /newsroom/ourExperts.aspx (2141 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Marcus Foundation said it intends to buy 14 acres on the west side of the Atlantic Station, a residential and retail development near Georgia Tech.
		Bernard Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot, made a $200 million commitment to the project in November.
		Marcus, who is worth more than $3 billion, said the aquarium is a way to thank customers and employees who have helped the Atlanta-based company become the nation's largest home-improvement retailer.
	nwitimes.com /articles/2002/06/02/export23591.txt (531 words)

	Grant Me Rich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born in 1929 in Newark, NJ, Bernard Marcus was the son of Russian immigrant parents.
		From the beginning, Blank and Marcus were committed to sharing the wealth.
		And Blank and Marcus are among the richest men in the country.
	www.grantmerich.com /article1.htm (592 words)

	Symbol And LinksPoint To Provide Emergency Mobile Tracking Solution For The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In a CNN interview yesterday, Home Depot co-founder and ex-chairman and CEO, Bernard Marcus pledged $3.9 million to equip a state-of-the-art emergency response center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
		Marcus' challenge to companies to help provide vital equipment and services to the CDC.
		In his role as CDC Foundation board member, Bernard Marcus has challenged corporations like Symbol and LinksPoint to provide vital equipment and services to the CDC at a reduced cost.
	legacy.symbol.com /news/pressreleases/pr_logistics_linkspoint.html (665 words)

	TheStoryGroup.com: Editor's Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Even in the end, Marcus had to lie about the reason for moving on from Atlantic Station, saying he couldn’t get clear title to the land, which the Atlantic Station developers denied.
		I believe Bernard Marcus simply felt he was above having to put up with concerns from the surrounding neighborhoods and their demands for impact studies and such.
		Marcus will get away from neighborhood associations that will demand that an impact study be done on the downtown site north of Centennial Park.
	www.the-stories.com /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:616 (1066 words)

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