His company, Energy Conversion Devices, founded in 1960 with his wife, Iris, went public in 1964 but lost money almost every year of its existence.
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In his final days, he and his wife went to a house on the Rhode Island coast and listened to music they had sung together in a small church choir, Mozart's Missa Brevis.
He would raise his nose and sniff the air to see if he could guess what his wife had cooked for dinner, and then he went in to her, finding her always in the same posture, making him tea, fanning the fire in the hearth.
After his wife's disappearance, he went on a gambling spree in Las Vegas, partially funded by her credit cards.
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Baker went duck hunting at his wife's family's ranch in Danbury, Texas.
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He stood in the door, watching his daughters playing hopscotch, and when his wife went past he stuck out his butt, so that she rubbed against it as she squeezed through.
Returning to Bosnia, he went looking for the Muslim family of Hamed Celik, his Serbian wife's brother-in-law.
At two in the afternoon, he returned home, had lunch with his wife, and then went back to the office for the afternoon.
Mr. Bo went on to say his wife had given up her legal career two decades ago when they were living in Dalian so they wouldn't be accused of profiting from his position.
Mr Clarke said his daughter could sign and lip read in Welsh and English, but he and his wife wanted her educated in Welsh and at Penrhyncoch where Mrs Clarke, her grandmother, father and brother all went to school.
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"I didn't fantasize about anything other than it would be nice to spend time with her, " Mr. Freeman said in answer to a question about what went through his mind when he used to pass his future wife on the street.
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