Word: capitalist
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...mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
...always demanding. The people (mostly men) who work for him have inherited (and enforce) an engineer's creed that brings a bloodless "just fix it" intensity to everything from human relations to fabrication. "When I was at Intel, one of the most important values was discipline," says venture capitalist John Doerr, who worked for the firm for six years in the 1970s. "Andy Grove had no tolerance for people who were late or meetings that ran on without a purpose. It wasn't that he was a hard ass; it's just the nature of their business. There...
...clear that the Internet is now the domain of the venture capitalist, not the adventurous academic," Joseph Bordogna, acting deputy director of the NSF, told a Congressional subcommittee in September...
...East and the West at the start of the Cold war. As one critic wrote of it, "It is one of the most beautiful, most exalted of [Prokofiev's] works...this great work shows once again how immeasurably superior Soviet music is to the music of the Capitalist West." Ironically, aside from a few such critics, the symphony had a poor reception in the Soviet Union, and thus was not published until 1949--in New York...
Jiang's schedule for Friday includes a breakfast in New York with former president George Bush and a foray into the capitalist world. Jiang will ring the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange, a publicity event tinged with irony because of the stock market roller coaster this week, precipitated by the Hong Kong market's dramatic decline. Jiang will not be greeted in New York by either New York Mayor Rudolf W. Giuliani or Governor George Pataki...