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  Ashley Olsen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
She and her twin sister, Mary-Kate Olsen, were born June 13, 1986 in Sherman...
Ashley Fuller Olsen / Ashlie Olsen / Mary Kate Ashley Olsen
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  Urban Legends Reference Pages: Ken Olsen
Part of the reason for Digital's downfall is often blamed on Olsen's failure to anticipate or understand the burgeoning personal computer market, a failure supposedly exemplified by his having disparaged the PC as something no individual needed to have in his home.
What Olsen [was focusing on was] that in the 1950s and 1960s there existed the notion that the computer not only could but would control all aspects of our lives.
As Olsen explained to me at length and attempted to make clear, he thought it would be unacceptable to have the computer in the home controlling everything.
www.snopes.com /quotes/kenolsen.asp   (831 words)

  
 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
It was Olsen's hard luck to perform for many mediocre teams in Los Angeles — he never won a Super Bowl — but he had as much to do as any other individual with glamorizing defensive football in the NFL.
Before the era of Olsen, and teammate and future Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones, this was an offensive league.
Olsen kept order along the scrimmage line, often stopping the draw play himself or quickly identifying the screen pass.
www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=168   (347 words)

  
 580wdbo.com: Inside 580wdbo.com
Olsen always invites his listeners to email him their legal questions and he invites you to do so as well.
Olsen on Law is a live local call-in talk show and has been bringing Central Florida free legal advice for over 19 years.
Olsen was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1981, and has been a practicing attorney in Orlando since that date.
580wdbo.com /ads/ate_olsenonlaw.html   (333 words)

  
 D.C. United: Roster: Player Bio
Olsen's season was cut short when he suffered a third degree MCL sprain in his left knee in the sixth minute of a match against the MetroStars on 9/28.
Olsen finished the abbreviated year by notching his lone assist of the season on a Henry Zambrano goal in United's 4-3 OT loss to the Dallas Burn on 9/19.
Olsen was in the first XI for victory against Cuba on 7/7 and played the full 90 minutes in a scoreless draw against Costa Rica on 7/12.
dcunited.mlsnet.com /players/bio.jsp?team=t103&player=olsen_b&playerId=ols177981&statType=current   (1298 words)

  
 Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Kenneth H. Olsen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Olsen wanted to name the new company Digital Computer Corporation, but Doriot prevailed on the two to keep a low profile and instead go with the more innocuous Digital Equipment Corporation.
Olsen was responsible for implementing a new management style called matrix management during the mid-1960s.
In one of the most famous of all computer industry quotations, Olsen stated at the 1977 World Future Society meeting in Boston (according to an 1982 interview with David Ahl): “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” DEC remained aloof from the PC market throughout Olsen’s reign.
www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=8CF5E5CB35CB42E1857F6F42970E2A2C&searchtype=1&DicID=17928&RefType=Encyclopedia   (589 words)

  
 WAPA - Hal Olsen: Famed Nose Art Artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Shortly after Olsen landed on Tinian, a Japanese bomb attack destroyed the paint shed on the island and with it the paints used by the resident nose artist.
Hal Olsen painted two planes in the 509 th, both were destined to be used in the atomic drops, although, not as the actual bomb carriers.
Olsen painted “Necessary Evil,” a B-29 assigned to the Hiroshima mission as a scientific monitoring aircraft.
www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/PacTheatTopics/HalOlsen.htm   (958 words)

  
 Office of Science and Technology Policy - Kathie Olsen Bio
Kathie L. Olsen is the Associate Director for Science for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President.
As NASA Chief Scientist, she served not only as the Administrator’s senior scientific advisor and principal interface with the national and international scientific community but also was the principal advisor to the Administrator on budget content of the scientific programs.
Olsen received her B.S. with honors from Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pa., majoring in both biology and psychology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
www.ostp.gov /html/bio_olsen.html   (489 words)

  
 SPACE.com --
U.S. scientist and entrepreneur Gregory Olsen became the world's third space tourist on Sept. 30, 2005 when he successfully launched into space aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on a 10-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS) and back.
MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. scientist Gregory Olsen and a two-man Russian-American crew made final preparations to leave the international space station Monday, ending a seven-day trip for the millionaire businessman as the third private citizen to visit the orbiting outpost.
Two astronauts and U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen are settling into life aboard the International Space Station (ISS) one day after arriving at the orbital laboratory.
www.space.com /missionlaunches/olsen_spacetourist_archive.html   (1334 words)

  
 NCW--Tillie Olsen
TILLIE OLSEN is the highly praised author of Tell Me a Riddle, Silences, and Yonnondio.
She is a Nebraska native (born in 1912 or 1913) who began writing in the 1930s.
Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades." She was raised in the Russian Jewish and Socialist community in Omaha and now lives in Berkeley.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /NCW/olsen.htm   (163 words)

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