Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday evening, and television viewers all over France are rushing to finish up the dinner dishes. It is almost time for Ambition, a popular new program starring Financial Wizard Bernard Tapie, 44. Sporting a dark blue suit and his trademark red tie, the lively Parisian preaches hard work and street smarts as the roots of success. "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship," he counsels his enthusiastic audience. "Dare to think...
...Bernard Tapie is a prototype of the new French entrepreneur, the personification of an emerging capitalist spirit that is popping up in unexpected places all around the world. With an enthusiastic push, he asks, "Why are we, who have invented everything from fashion to gastronomy, not the most powerful economic force in the world?" In addition to emceeing a television show, Tapie has peddled his views in a best-selling autobiography titled Winning and a popular record called Success in Life. Following the example of his hero, Lee Iacocca, Tapie appears in openly nationalistic television commercials for his own products...
...proletarian millionaire" because of his relaxed style. "He runs a horizontal management," explains Camille Letierce, director general of the company's sports division. "In France, the chief executive officer has often been a stuffy and stiff individual hidden away from real contact with his workers. But Bernard is out in front of his troops, openly announcing that he wants to make money. He's very American. He's our cowboy. He's our Ronald Reagan." Tapie has been called "Zorro" and "the miracle man," but he reacts contemptuously to such titles. "I am no superman," he says. "I am just...
When the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby shifted from London to Broadway in September 1981, theatergoers gasped at the record-setting $100 ticket price and bottom-numbing 8 1/2-hr. length. Co-Producer Bernard Jacobs of the Shubert Organization described seeing both halves in one day as "participating with the actors in a survival experience." Nonetheless, Nickleby's 14-week run became a sellout, playing to almost 55,000 people and leaving countless others feeling they had missed a triumph never to be repeated...
...Washington, State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said, "The United States is pleased that persons responsible for the death of an American citizen and injury and damages to others have been convicted...