Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrigue began when Tannoury, 37, a Paris-based entrepreneur, told Saudi Sheik Mezan Pharaon that Gaddafi had offered $1 billion to anyone who could supply certain "strategic materials," presumably parts for an atomic reactor. Tannoury said he could obtain the materials through Venezuelan associates, but that he first needed to come up with a $33 million down payment. For approximately $14 million in cash, Tannoury said, Pharaon could share in the profits of the operation. A short while later, the sheik gave Tannoury the $14 million...
...Tennessee will also absorb up to $86.5 million in uncollectible U.A.B. loans. Any more than that will be covered by the FDIC, which believes the total may reach $160 million. The biggest loser is Jake Butcher; he owned $15 million in U.A.B. stock that is now worthless. The flamboyant entrepreneur, who five years ago was Tennessee's Democratic candidate for Governor, and who was the driving force behind last year's Knoxville World's Fair, has clearly lost more than a bank...
...Ohio bank. Charlie Kirkwood has since worked as a publisher of a newspaper in Bangkok, a gandy dancer on the Alaskan railroad, a war-time reporter in Pakistan and Vietnam, and the founder of a prestigious law firm in Thailand. But now the man who describes himself as "an entrepreneur by nature" is back doing what he most enjoys--producing a revival of the hit musical Godspell, playing this month at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
...wife Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar). She sets his nights ablaze with her Lorelei beauty and passion, but she doesn't really love him. She loves making love, and so she exercises her power in one of the few ways open to a woman in 1920s Germany: by becoming an entrepreneur of lust. Promiscuous as a prancing stud, possessive as any hausfrau, Hanni drives "Fatty" Bolwieser to the twin dominatrices of drink and despair. Called to court, the cuckold testifies to his wife's fidelity while she dallies with two of the village's men on the make. Logically...
Hard as it may be to concoct articles more bizarre than what the tabloids already run, the challenge has been taken up by Tony Hendra, 41, the editor-entrepreneur behind the 1978 parody Not the New York Times and last April's Off the Wall Street Journal. Says Hendra: "The Enquirer style is difficult. You have to keep sentences to ten words and use 'mind-boggling' and 'national survey' over and over. To get the layout right you have to unlearn everything you know about good design...