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Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects - while Google's advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Alphabet Apart Balloon Business Car Company Continue Drive Efforts Finances Google Holding House Internet Life Like Projects Sciences Stand While Would

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Porat is among a handful of top people who work for both Alphabet and Google. As such, there's a regular cadence to her week.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Alphabet Among Both Google Handful Her People Regular Top Week Who Work

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Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Alphabet Amazon Causing Engine Given Growth Idle Investors Microsoft Over Products Profit Spending Stock Suffered Too Years

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My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

~Adora Svitak

Topics: Alphabet Because Being Books Chapter Five Go Insisted Kindergarten Learn Local Many Me Parents Preschool Problem Reading School Should Sister Three Why Years You Your

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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

~Alexander Kluge

Topics: According Alexandria Alphabet Although Burnt Certain Continue Down Even Expressions Fact Letters Level Library Makes Modernity People Possible Sort Then Think Tradition I Think

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The coral reef at Bonaire, one of the alphabet islands in the Caribbean, is so alive and healthy.

~Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Topics: Alive Alphabet Caribbean Coral Healthy Islands

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On Sept. 12, 2016, there was a momentary realignment in the constellation of global business. For the first time, the five largest public corporations in the world by market capitalization were all technology companies: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Facebook.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Alphabet Apple Business Companies Corporations Facebook First First Time Five Global Largest Market Microsoft Momentary Public Sept Technology Time Were World

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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

~Brian P. Cleary

Topics: About All Things Alphabet Books Covered Even Everything Except Had Like Makes Parts Punctuation Sentence Several Speech Things Up Word Written

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I made three or four different fonts during 'Short Term 12' -' it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes. I have graph paper and gel pens, and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'.

~Brie Larson

Topics: Again Alphabet Between Calm Different Four Gel Go Got Graph How Just Made Mind Over Paper Pens Perfect Scenes Short Short Term Term Then Three Until Would

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When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

~Caroll Spinney

Topics: Along Alphabet Bid Big Bird Came Child Created Even First Goofy Guy He Instance Jim Just Know Learning More Much Oscar Said Script Show Started Teaching Things Think Think Big Useful Were Who Would I Think

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