Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's other comments, trumpeting what he called the "age of the entrepreneur" and his desire for an "economic revolution," response from students at the Roman Catholic university...
...under siege. Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina has helped launch an effort by Fairness in Media, a conservative group, to buy up CBS and, as he put it, "become Dan Rather's boss." The Washington Post reported last week that Atlanta's Ted Turner, the cable-TV entrepreneur, told CBS lawyers that he had had extensive discussions with Helms about taking over...
...associates to Miami for the payoff--and arrested them. As a result of the operation, Suarez was indicted by a Miami federal grand jury: so far, however, he has eluded his pursuers. He has also repeatedly denied any involvement in the drug trade and calls himself "an agro-industrial entrepreneur...
...cocaine trade in Colombia took off in the late 1970s when crime bosses entered the business. Until then, their profits had largely come from smuggling cars, liquor and electronic appliances into the country and sneaking cattle, emeralds and coffee out. Then, it seems, Pablo Escobar Gaviria, an entrepreneur whom Colombian bankers describe as "a self-taught administrator with a genius for organization," convinced Smuggler Fabio Ochoa of the profits to be earned from cocaine. The two took over the domestic industry and sent murderous local toughs, now known as cocaine cowboys, to seize control of the U.S. wholesale market...
Although Betancur's assault caused the drug kings to lie low for a while, they were by no means cowed. Within a month of the Lara murder, Entrepreneur Escobar and a few colleagues, claiming to represent a group of coqueros controlling 80% of the drug market, met first with Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, a former Colombian President, and then with Attorney General Carlos Jimenez Gomez in Panama City to offer the Colombian government a deal: in exchange for total amnesty, they said, they would dismantle their illicit empires and repatriate $5 billion into Colombia's troubled economy. The government replied ; that...