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• n  a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
• n  a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)

• It was Clinton's luck that Pat Buchanan behaved as if he were a mole and sapper in the employ of the Democratic National Committee.
• The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white .
• In South Viet Nam, the Communists continued to step up the fighting in the northernmost I Corps with shellings, sapper raids and the bloodiest assault on civilians in more than two .

News & Articles

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• Meet The Man Who Could Have Been Jony Ive Making $30 Million Per Year – If He Hadn't Turned Steve Jobs Down
  Richard Sapper is an 81-year-old German designer who's been creating beautiful products for 60 years. He's a world-renowned creator who has won multiple awards.
  June 20, 2013 - Business Insider
• The designer Steve Jobs might have hired
  Famed German designer Richard Sapper has revealed in an interview with Dezeen that Steve Jobs once wanted to hire him to design Apple's computers: Jobs once wanted to hire me to do the design of Apple [computers] but the circumstances weren't right because I didn't want to move to California and I had very interesting work here that I didn't want to abandon. Also, at that time Apple was not a ...
  June 20, 2013 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• How ThinkPad Designer Richard Sapper Could Have Been Jony Ive
  In an interview with Dezeen, the German designer recalls turning down a job offer from Steve Jobs. In an interview published today on Dezeen , Richard Sapper reveals that he could have been Jony Ive. Steve Jobs tried to hire the German industrial designer, who is responsible for creating IBM’s iconic ThinkPad, the Tizio lamp, and other cutting-edge designs. In fact, Sapper tells Dezeen’s Alyn ...
  June 19, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Michael Ignatieff in CBC.ca
  Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said he wanted to extend his "deepest sympathies to the loved ones of Sapper Greenfield and to the entire armed forces family."
• Mark Durkan in Belfast Telegraph
  The SDLP reiterates our call for anyone with information relating to the murders of Sapper Patrick Azimkar, Sapper Mark Quinsy and Constable Stephen Carroll to provide it to the PSNI,added Mr Durkan.
• Peter MacKay in CBC.ca
  We will remember Sgt. Eades, Corp. Wasden and Sapper Stock as truly dedicated Canadian soldiers who served their country with professionalism and courage,Defence Minister Peter MacKay said in a press release.