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...still losing about $4 million a week. Even so, the decision to sell off some of the company's assets was not made voluntarily by People Founder and Chairman Donald Burr. The move was forced on Burr by the remaining board members. The insurgents were led by Venture Capitalist William Hambrecht of San Francisco, whose firm raised $23.5 million in the early development of People, and by Charles Phillips, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, People's investment banker. Said an airline-industry expert: "The board has clipped Burr's wings and is now running the show...
...developed a deep admiration for professional risk takers. "I always heard about these successful entrepreneurs who went to Harvard Business School," he says, "so I wanted to go too." After graduating from Harvard in 1976 with both an M.B.A. and a law degree, he decided to become a venture capitalist, but "there were no jobs in the field and no prospects of getting any." Then a professor introduced him to Stanley Golder, president of First Chicago's venture capital...
...most capitalist countries, the political fortunes of France's leaders tend to rise and fall with the success of their economic programs. Chirac will undoubtedly challenge Mitterrand for the presidency in the elections scheduled for 1988. From a business point of view, his prospects so far look promising...
Buthelezi's primary appeal to whites lies in his endorsement of capitalist principles, his commitment to nonviolence and his willingness to resolve the nation's racial differences through compromise. Many South Africans regard him as perhaps the only man, white or black, who can bring about a peaceful end to the hated apartheid system. This very prominence makes him a figure of suspicion and even derision among many militant blacks, who dismiss him as a puppet of the Pretoria government. Even so, all sides agree that the Zulu chief is likely to play a pivotal role in the future...
...candidates said they have yet to decidewhat their position is on divestment. One of them,James C. Dudley '43, a venture capitalist, said:"It's a very complicated issue, there is no blackor white...