Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began to believe in the lasting power of cultural innovations, such as movies and television, jazz and rock. Now that we're dealing with business titans, I realize that economic initiative is what transforms us, from Henry Ford's assembly line to Bill Gates' software. Stay tuned: no doubt when we do our next issue in a few months, I'll conclude that it's actually scientists and thinkers who most shape a century...
Those Grimm boys moved their plots along like rockets. Today, they'd no doubt be writing screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer. In this action-packed tale, a young man is saved from imminent death twice and then has to go to hell and back--no, really--to win the hand of the princess he loves. The religious right may not like the sympathetic portrayal of the devil's granny, but no one can fault the charming illustrations or the happy ending...
...capital, the natural resources or the skilled workers needed to industrialize, but their economic and political systems usually favored consensus management and faceless bureaucrats while denigrating the kind of individual initiative required to take an idea and turn it into an industry. The 21st century will no doubt include a larger number of great business leaders from outside the U.S. as more nations embrace capitalism and come to understand the importance of rewarding individual initiative...
...there be any doubt that the democratization of the markets is the single most profound financial trend of the past half-century? The statistics certainly bear this out: by some measures, half of America's households now invest, compared with only 16% in 1945, and mutual funds alone hold more of America's financial assets than banks do. Indeed, a strong argument can be made that the small investor, far more than the professional trader, is the true foundation upon which the modern bull market has been built...
...eldest son of the president of International Business Machines, Thomas Watson Jr. grew up tortured by self-doubt. He suffered bouts of depression and once burst into tears over the thought that his formidable father wanted him to join IBM and eventually run what was already a significant company. "I can't do it," he wailed to his mother. "I can't go to work...