Word: capitalistically
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According to Castro, the first order of business will be to put Elian in a "reorientation" camp to purge him of the capitalist and democratic elements he was exposed to in the U.S. He will be taught to view his mother as a traitor for trying to abduct him to the United States. He will be paraded around as a Communist icon, as Castro has already made him into the largest existing piece of anti-American propaganda in the country. As an adolescent, Elian will be forced to leave his family to provide labor for the Communist State...
Despite the rush of money chasing the incredible returns, possibly building up a speculative bubble, Meyer says that venture capital investment should not be labeled as a fad. He notes that venture capital is at the heart of the capitalist economy, in some ways more than stock market investing...
...Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building democratic and capitalist bridges there in preparation for his demise. Exile leaders like Ramon Saul Sanchez, who once headed a clandestine paramilitary group that trained for a possible invasion of Cuba, say that kind of dialoguista thinking "just props up a dictator." Freyre counters that the demagogic feud with Castro is self-serving, propping...
...doubt it. I'm 40 years old, I don't own a house, I don't own anything! I have a van with 170,000 miles on it. I own a bunch of albums. One of my roommates from college is now almost a billionaire. He became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and now he's going to be worth a billion in a couple of years. And God bless him, it's great. That's what he wanted to do, he set out, and was in the right place at the right time. When I'm hanging...
Prouty isn't the only businessman to look at India and see untapped opportunity, but he's the only American venture capitalist who lives and works there, 24/7. And being there makes all the difference. A Yale liberal-arts graduate, Prouty spent the first 20 years of his career at Citibank as a senior credit officer lending to multinational companies, and the next 15 financing $100 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions at Lazard Freres before exiting as a general partner. Prouty could have retired. "But that was a sure way to feel like an old man on the shelf...