Word: businessperson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here in Coffeyville is another piece of the proof that Bezos' early and fervent belief in the Internet--that it would rock retailing, that it would change the way we live--stands as one of the more prescient assumptions ever made by a businessperson. "We're trying to build something lasting," Bezos says, looking at this 850,000-sq.-ft. monument to free trade. The warehouse is stocked with books, CDs, TVs, stereos, video games, software, toys. And yet only 10% of the area is being used. The rest is stretch space, here for the ongoing e-commerce revolution...
...about how college was a "journey" and an "adventure." You may have arrived at Harvard with a firm idea of who you are and what you will become, but by the end of first semester, you might discover that you no longer want to be a doctor, or a businessperson or "God help us, a lawyer." Instead, he explained, you might discover a passion for Akkadian texts or for the life and times of airborne spores. And while you might have trouble convincing your parents that airborne spores really are your calling, you should follow the soaring path to which...
...Beard, 52, is in the hotel business, so it's almost axiomatic that he has sympathy for the travails of the traveling--or moving--businessperson. Especially if it's him. Last April he took a job as vice president of operations for Regent International Hotels, a chain of luxury hotels owned by the Carlson Cos., a travel and restaurant conglomerate based in Minneapolis, Minn. The switch meant a move from Dallas to Minneapolis for himself, his wife Barbara and daughters Cassandra, 8, and Lauren, 10. Beard likes the new employment opportunity, but as a veteran of 14 previous employment relocations...
...John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould. At a time when unskilled white workers earned about $11 a week, Walker's agents were making $5 to $15 a day, pioneering a system of multilevel marketing that Walker and her associates perfected for the black market. More than any other single businessperson, Walker unveiled the vast economic potential of an African-American economy, even one stifled and suffocating under Jim Crow segregation...
...Boise dry cleaner with a hoop in his backyard and a dish on his roof, the prevailing representation of black Americans shifts from highlight-reel dunker to greedy businessperson. He who once had only to ponder the black athlete must now ponder the black man. And where else will he see a black face...