It is a short walk on a wheelchair friendly paved path to a knoll overlook.
The proposal will be a death knoll for the rich giving away a vast part of their fortune.
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Ian McDonald and Kerry Knoll, both 48, had a good thing going with Glencairn Gold, founded in 1987.
"We'll either personally do a rights offering or, perhaps, sell another part of one of our cases, " says Knoll.
Knoll: Somehow we managed to create a huge mass-marketing industry out of online, so there has to be a way.
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There's a good reason: Of Pearl's 530 investors, 25% are family and friends (additionally, McDonald has 11% and Knoll, 8.3%).
After a few minutes, the Bull placed Max atop a grassy knoll, and the beasts gathered around, looking up at him expectantly.
But the difference between the two is less than clear-cut, Knoll said.
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The 6-bedroom, 4.5-bath Vineyard Knoll Estate is a ranch-style home located just two miles outside Glen Ellen with views of the valley and surrounding vineyards.
As the boats pull up to the dock, an Asian man wearing a yellow-and-white rain coat crouches on a knoll, staring out at the boats.
He later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International.
There is even an outdoor grassy knoll right in the middle of the offices that one would think serves for visiting children or their playful parents.
So what separates a big pharmaceutical company like AstraZeneca from a small one like Knoll isn't just how well it markets its drugs, but how new those drugs are.
And now, just as we buy our chairs at Knoll or Steelcase instead of building them, we can buy capacity in the cloud instead of building our own data centers.
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After an unsatisfying bit of online research, Kelly finds an answer provided by John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop and Oscar-winning Visual Effects Director, who he met at a party.
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Each house was set off on a knoll or well back from the street, with stands of lean trees dividing the properties just the sort of old establishment solidity that suited me.
Across the garden from the house is a small building, a casino, on a man-made knoll, which gives the illusion of a hilly topography while blocking sunlight glaring off the water beyond.
That doesn't mean they're easy to spot, though: Chinese conceptualist Song Dong's contribution to Documenta is "The Doing Nothing Garden, " a 160-foot-long grassy knoll in Karlsaue Park whose innards are a mound of trash.
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Knoll explains that at the height of the tech bubble investors bid up the shares on the news that Pearl had become involved with a company that patented what became a standard for Web browsers.
After an attempted corporate raid by British financier James Goldsmith in 1986, the company piled on debt, Knoll said, and was left in a poor position to react to the globalization of the auto industry.
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Guests are given a tour, then outfitted in Barbour jackets and left-hand gloves. (In the old days, the right hand was your "knife hand, " and thus left uncovered.) And off they're sent to a big, grassy knoll fringed by woodland, to hunt for a stuffed rabbit.
Last year Humanscale's revenue from the Freedom chair jumped another 30%. (Its gross margin hovers at 50% or so, compared with 30% for Steelcase.) This despite a memo circulated to hundreds of furniture wholesalers by Knoll and another chairmaker explaining that they regarded selling the products from Humanscale, a serious competitor, the equivalent of treason.
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