1.   Analysts and investors said Bagdasarian was trying to copy Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., who is also based in Omaha.

2.   As is his wont, Bill Gates, the billionaire chairman of the company, intends to get the most bang for his buck.

3.   Branson, the billionaire chairman of the Virgin Group in Britain, was jubilant.

4.   Branson, who has flown or financed many long flights, is the billionaire chairman of the Virgin Group of Companies, which include Virgin Atlantic Airways.

5.   After that, Branson, the billionaire chairman of the group of companies that includes Virgin Atlantic Airways, invited him as a crew member of his own balloon.

6.   But for Forstmann, the billionaire chairman of Forstmann Little, now is prime time.

7.   But for Theodore J. Forstmann, left, the billionaire chairman of Forstmann Little, a major leverage buyout firm in New York, things have never been better.

8.   But for Theodore J. Forstmann, the billionaire chairman of Forstmann Little, now is prime time.

9.   No one in Memphis knows the billionaire Microsoft chairman.

10.   Press reports had portrayed Bagdasarian as the next Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. whose strategy involved taking stakes in other publicly traded companies.