Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help more natives prepare for business, Kenya Shell Ltd. and the country's Ministry of Education have put together an illustrated book in Swahili, with English translations, on rudimentary business practices. Featured are Mr. Shida, a bumbling, unsuccessful shopkeeper, and Mr. Ali, a progressive, flourishing entrepreneur. Mr. Shida, for example; is in serious trouble because his debtors are slow to pay him. Mr. Ali, by contrast, avoids that kind of bind by shrewdly refusing to give credit. A typical lesson deals with the display of merchandise in shop windows: "One of these cakes has flies on it. The other...
Disruptive Influence. The young entrepreneur's differences with the First National stem from the fact that both his grandfather and father were directors and prime movers of the bank. When William White Sr. died in 1966, First National pointedly passed over his two sons in filling the vacant directorship, even though the White family held a major interest in the bank...
...government, and arrested those who refused. But now thousands of priests who were forced to work in factories and on farms have returned to their flocks. A certain amount of private business is tolerated. Jerry Herdglotz, 47, for example, now drives his own Opel Olympia sedan as a private entrepreneur, makes $250 a month v, $150 that he used to earn working for the state cab company...
...months, left-wing students have been staging riotous demonstrations against the newspapers of Germany's No. 1 press entrepreneur, Axel Springer. In his pugnacious newsmagazine Der Spiegel, Rudolf Augstein has called for a "lex Springer" to cut the publisher down to size. And a government commission recently warned that a publisher as big as Springer controlled too much of Germany's press for democratic comfort...
That was 14 years ago, and Senator Joe McCarthy has been dead for eleven of them. Lawyer Roy Cohn, now 41 and more a New York business entrepreneur than an attorney, still has some sharp questions and deft answers. In McCarthy, a loyal but stubbornly wrongheaded book, the Senator's onetime lieutenant tries to use those questions and answers to memorialize his old boss as a "courageous man who fought a monumental evil"-a feat that just might, of course, extend a little virtue-by-association to himself...