The Romanian missed last weekend's 2-1 win at Sunderland after suffering "a heavy knock" to the same knee on which he was operated before joining Spurs last summer and, with Younès Kaboul and Jan Vertonghen already sidelined, the club were forced to deploy Etienne Capoue alongside Michael Dawson in central defence on Wearside.
"It allowed industry to operate in ways it couldn't operate before, in places it couldn't operate before".
Before that, he operated Target, and before that he was an owner of the Grand Union supermarket chain on the East Coast.
He operated the Utah Jazz before taking over the Knicks and then moving upstairs as the Garden president.
Mikhail Gorbachev came from an agricultural family in south-west Russia, where he operated combine harvesters, before joining the Communist Party at university, and working his way up the party ranks.
In 2009, he chose to spend time as an intern in the congressional offices of Democrat Alan Grayson because he wanted to learn about how government operated before he set about the business of trying to improve it.
In fact, he has asked some patients whose extra weight could make surgery risky to get in shape before he operated on them.
Before he operated on Feb. 26, 2010, Boland went to the medical literature to see if there was any other athlete who had that hamstring muscle removed, recovered and competed again.
If he were your heart doctor (i.e., the man opening your chest) ask yourself which route you'd rather him take before he operated on you: Fast and discouraging or slow and uplifting?
Thus, Rossellini was also one of the great symbolists ever to wield a camera (and, as his career advanced, he literally wielded it — for "Vanini Vanini," in 1961, he invented a remote-control zoom that he operated while the action unfurled before the camera).
