Earl had been a test driver for Chrysler and was a foreman at the engineering garage, the kind of man who worked for one company his entire career.

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Irwin Jacobs had run the publicly held company as his own one-man show, and it was all but foreordained from the moment Paul joined up in 1990 that one day Paul would take over when Irwin stepped down.

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As co-owner of a Berkeley-based theater company, I produced mostly one-man (or one-woman) plays and small ensemble pieces that played especially well in smaller, more intimate venues.

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But his one-man floating corporation today is a far cry from the company he launched 21 years ago.

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Jobs was the visionary, the man who remade the beleaguered company and transformed it into one of the most valuable publically traded companies in the world.

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With a man who dishes out taxpayers' money to a moribund company with one hand, while pushing through painful budget cuts with the other, confusion is not surprising.

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But if he hires just one bad apple, so to speak, that man or woman could bring down the entire company.

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The 42nd richest man in the world is asking Motorola shareholders to vote him to one of the eleven seats on the company's Board of Directors at the May 7 annual meeting.

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Today, her 23-man company runs four tours in New York (the Jeffersons building used to be featured in one of them but is no longer on the itinerary), and just launched a new one in Washington, D.

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