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1. Muhammad Ali -- George Foreman
   In joining Muhammad Ali Enterprises, Mr. DiNicola will leave his position as a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLC, a California law firm. He has been with the firm since 1984, specializing in entertainment, sports and intellectual property law. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University Law School and has served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
2. George Duncan
   George Duncan of Duncan Direct is a freelance direct marketing copywriter. He provides copy writing and copy critique assistance for sales letters, catalogs, product and service brochures. Duncan Direct provides expert advice and strategy on creating lead generating offers including direct mail packages, self-mailers, postcard promotions and direct response advertising. With Duncan Direct you get highly targeted messaging for e-mail promotions, e-newsletters and e-zines. Effective copywriting for corporate booklets, brochures and small business campaigns. Web content, marketing strategies and more.
3. George Pullman -- Buildings
   In August, 1893, George Pullman lowered the wages of all workers to cut cost and maintain profits while the national suffered another depression. At the same time, the Pullman Land Association, the subsidiary that managed the city of Pullman, did not lower rents and attempted to collect them each payday... leaving workers with less on which to live on until the next 2-week payday. Occasionally, that deduction left but $1 for the family. George maintained that this policy was required to keep workers employed during a period when business contracts were difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, he did not lower his own salary nor those of his executives, nor did he lower dividends to the company stockholders, maintaining that they contributed to the company's support. During this time, foreman drove the workers harder to get more output.
4. Nikola Tesla -- George Westinghouse
   I[N] November and December of 1887, Nikola Tesla, a Serbian engineer, filed for seven U.S. patents in the field of polyphase AC motors and power transmission. His motor produced alternating current and his transformers stepped up and stepped down the voltage as required. Westinghouse believed in Tesla's inventions, installed, them in the Adams Station and brought electricity to Buffalo.
5. Essay
   Essay writing as a genre has a lot of masks that it puts on to withstand the requirements set by a certain situation and task. In other words, there are many essay styles. The most basic way of differentiating them is to divide essay writings into academic and publicistic groups.
6. Muhammad Ali -- Fighters
   In early 1976, Ali would go on to face journeymen fighters such as Kevin McLaughlin and Richard Dunn (Ali's last knockout of his career), winning easy decisions. In April 1976, an out-of-shape Ali out pointed the tough, young brawler Jimmy Young, who went on to defeat George Foreman by decision and made Ali appear slow and immobile.
7. Muhammad Ali -- Joe Frazier
   Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., on January 17, 1942, and was raised in a clapboard house at 3302 Grand Avenue in middle-class Louisville, Kentucky. He began boxing at the age of 12. A white Louisville patrolman named Joe Martin, who had an early television show called "Tomorrow's Champions," started Ali working out in Louisville's Columbia Gym, but it was a black trainer named Fred Stoner who taught Ali the science of boxing. Stoner taught him to move with the grace of a dancer, and impressed upon him the subtle skills necessary to move beyond good and into the realm of great.
8. Billy Crystal -- Roger Maris
   Thirty essays by such luminaries as Billy Crystal, Christopher Reeve, Spike Lee, Joan Jett, Bill Bradley, Mary Tyler Moore, George Foreman, and Tim Robbins bring to life the emotional connection between the Garden and its visitors. In his introduction, writer Pete Hamill details the colorful history of the Garden and shows why it holds such a powerful place in the hearts and minds of those who have set foot inside.
9. Wealth -- Wealth Expo
   LOS ANGELES, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Learning Annex Real Estate and Wealth Expo hosts its third annual Real Estate & Wealth Expo this Saturday and Sunday March 10 & 11th with more attendees than 2006! Donald Trump is teaching a private live class for Learning Annex students on how to get rich and staying after his lecture for a BONUS Q & A with the students. Tony Robbins will motivate the audience in a 3 hour peak performance training session. David Bach will teach what the rich teach their children that the middle class don't. Earvin "Magic" Johnson and George Foreman will share their skills on entrepreneurship and success, and James Ray from the hit movie "The Secret" will teach the laws of attraction. The upcoming weekend event captures the most recent information and money-making opportunities all in one place -- for one weekend only.
10. The Contender -- Mark Burnett
    Like its first season, The Contender's second season will feature sixteen boxing competitors living and training together and competing in weekly boxing elimination bouts. However, according to a Mark Burnett Productions spokesperson contacted by Reality TV World on Thursday afternoon, whether all of the other aspects of the series will remain the same is currently undecided and will only be determined after Burnett and his team meet with ESPN executives.

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