Word: entrepreneur
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Stevenson's professional experience as an entrepreneur in the area of real estate investment and development also made Stevenson particularly qualified for this post, Donaldson said. "This is one area where extensive professional experience in small business is particularly helpful," he added...
DIED. Walter Knott, 91, entrepreneur who converted a California roadside fruit stand into Knott's Berry Farm, a multimillion-dollar enterprise; in Buena Park, Calif. Knott, who once marketed jellies and jams and expanded into fried-chicken dinners, opened Knott's Berry Farm in 1940. The family-owned operation now includes an amusement park, which draws more than 5 million visitors a year, a number exceeded only by the Disney theme parks in Florida and California...
...dealings between present and former intelligence agents. There is a growing suspicion, as well, that close scrutiny of Wilson's affairs will turn up embarrassing connections with high officials, both in the U.S. and abroad, who may have participated in business deals with the entrepreneur in Tripoli...
...FHO1172, a.k.a. Suzanne Douglas. In fact, Douglas, who is founder, publisher and editor in chief of a slick, sophisticated monthly magazine called Intro ("The Single Source for Single People"), inserted the ad for herself in the March issue. It pulled 50 replies, including a letter from a divorced Chicago entrepreneur who was last seen flying warm, gentle, sensuous Suzanne in his own twin-engine Piper Navajo to Mackinac Island for the weekend...
...Threepenny Opera, the most enduring example of Brecht's epic theater, Brecht shows how closely the capitalist business interests relate to the criminal element. The entrepreneur, J.J. Peachum (Ernest Kearns), trafficks in sentiment. He outfits an army of "the poorest of the poor" with begging clothes and districts of operation. Aware of the efforts required to soften a man's heart to the point where he will part with his money, he believes, "no one can make his own misery sound convincing;" he has built an empire on this statement...