Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cottage industry is springing up around the ads. Author Foxman runs a classified love telephone line in Cleveland. Entrepreneur Vinci started a similar service in Philadelphia. Author Lynn Davis offers a three-hour workshop in New York City called "Personal Ads, Why Not?" Vi Rogers, editor of National Singles Register, a tabloid published in Southern California with many pages of personals, says the search for love, and not just sex, is producing the boom. "I never realized how many men wanted to get married in Southern California," she says. "Men and women today want the same thing: romance, love...
...trouble is that there are often fundamental gaps in the knowledge, and of course, usually vast vacancies in the developmental and technological phases of it, so that a false continuum is produced. This occupational disease of the business planner, the production engineer or even the entrepreneur, must be treated decisively with the most modern therapy. It appears that we can progressively identify and perhaps even avoid these discontinuities by various ways of organizing knowledge so that the discontinuities are early recognized. Then perhaps they may even be pursued in academic context, or at least not ignored through to the time...
DIED. Herman Lay, 73, snack-food supersalesman and entrepreneur who created the first national brand of potato chips as the head of the Dallas-based Frito-Lay Co. (1961-65), but couldn't stop with just one and kept building and merging until he was board chairman (1965-71) of the giant conglomerate PepsiCo; of cancer; in Dallas...
DIED. Roy Mark Hofheinz, 70, rambunctious, larger-than-life Texas entrepreneur and showman whose Houston Astrodome was the world's first indoor stadium; of a heart attack; in Houston. After passing the bar exam at 19, becoming the nation's youngest elected county judge, and serving as manager of Lyndon Johnson's unsuccessful 1941 Senate campaign, Hofheinz vowed to make a million dollars in less than a decade, which he did. Elected mayor of Houston at 40, he survived impeachment and eventually promoted the Astrodome, lavishly appointing the stadium with such splashy innovations as an electronic scoreboard...
...worry about John De Lorean. Once he gets over this crisis he will revert to being the entrepreneur. He will begin work on his autobiography, which will be made into a motion picture, and he will become a highly paid speaker on the lecture circuit. If he goes to jail he will be born again and will make inspiring sermons...