Word: canizaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being coined by the entrepreneurs. They are the creators and developers, the dreamers and hustlers who risk and dare. Many flop, but many others make it spectacularly Down in New Orleans, the skyline bordering on the storied French Quarter is being reshaped by a trim and handsome outsider, Joseph Canizaro The company that carries his name has just opened a 32-floor office tower, the first of many buildings in Ms Canal Place complex astride the roiling Mississippi Early in 1 980, dirt will fly for a 25-story structure and three-level retail mall next door Canizaro...
...started out with not 50,'' Canizaro drawls. ''Nobody ever gave me anything.''Well, there was something: $600 in life insurance left by his father a Mississippi doctor. ''I took the $600 and played the stock market and the commodities market. I ran that $600 to $100,000 in less than two years...
...Canizaro's first market plunge was a bluff, ''I had been studying the market reading everything I could get my hands on. I saw that there were a lot of short sellers in Lukens Steel. I was sure that the stock would rise, but I didn't have the money to pay for it. I bluffed my broker into buying 1,500 shares. Three days later I sold it for a profit of $10,210.'' Canizaro...