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...When the SBA verified that women were in fact the most dynamic portion of the small- business community," says Whitaker, "I knew I was on to a good story." The result: this week's special report on women entrepreneurs, who these days are running everything from fashion conglomerates to asphalt-paving firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jul. 4, 1988 | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

Many banks will not extend commercial loans to women unless their husbands or other men in the family cosign the application. "Everyone thought it was funny that I wanted to start my own asphalt-paving company," says Carolyn Stradley, 42, who founded C&S Paving, an Atlanta firm (1987 revenues: $2.5 million) after helping run a similar company. "Bankers would tell me, 'Honey, you can't make a living in that business.' " Stradley finally got a loan after her brother, who was unemployed and had once been bankrupt, cosigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Women Entrepreneurs: She Calls All the Shots | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across some asphalt. It's risky but not all that dangerous. And the cops don't like it. Perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Irresistible Lure Of Grabbing Air | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...slated to start the third game of the series. Matt and Kevin's park was completely different, a whiffle ball's Fenway. The infield was the asphalt of the street and the home run wall was the second-floor fire escape on Matt's building...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: You Seldom Whiff in Whiffle Ball | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

...face pops up with increasing frequency in newspapers and magazines, and she has given the MTV generation its first performance-writer by making videotapes to plug Slaves as well as Cannibal. The latter is the story of a well-read tribal chief who becomes the toast of the asphalt jungle and accidentally eats his wife at a barbecue. Janowitz has a catchy style and achieves her satiric effects with a sly Valley Girl delivery. Slaves cartoons the downtown-Manhattan art scene, where Janowitz, like her friend the late Andy Warhol, understands that people will look at anything rather than nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yuppie Lit: Publicize or Perish | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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