How to pronounce “starting gate” in English

-- it was wonderful. I was all ready to go. I already had a 501 when my mother died, so I was out ofthe starting gate. Mm hmm. >>DORIS: I made a few mistakes in the beginning, but not many, because I had a wonderful groupof people were working with me who were very bright, and that was our aim and has remained our aim, and we just

And I had none of those three years left.So I was there at the starting gate with the last bib.And in giant slalom and slalom, if you have the last bib, you will not even see the gates sometimes, because the holes that the people in front of you

I cannot hold her hand when she's skiing.So in that position on the starting gate, it's not a comfortable place.

--but that's not so.And that's the beginning, starting gate.

I mean, going to Sweden and then racing in this scenery, which was just out of this world.And I was amazed that suddenly the people that were on TV before were standing on the starting gate with me.And I went out there and I charged a course.

I cannot hold her hand when she's skiing.The last thing that was in my mind was I'm tired, and it's in the starting gate, not in the finish.

What do you do on Saturday mornings when you don't feel like you need to be doing anything else?And I love metaphors, so if you think about pilots like race horses at the Kentucky Derby, they're like race horses at the starting gate.

He speaks to us today about his most recent book, "Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave and Maybe Even Save The World."This book was in fact released in the United States just yesterday so we are very pleased to have the book right out of the starting gate.His thesis is simple, brands make corporations accountable and culture is something that is permanently engrained in the notion of a brand identity.