Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open space in the Square. Though it kept its plans secret from the press and the general public, the University did consult with city officials and neighborhood representatives, who were wary but not entirely negative; Harvard, they figured, might develop the land more responsibily than Louis DiGiovanni, a Cambridge entrepreneur...
...winning the battle of the bumpers? Entrepreneur Eric Glade, 26, for one. The Utah transplant has a flourishing sideline marketing the stickers and matching T shirts. The profits are private, but Glade says that retailers J.C. Penney's and Joslins have placed orders totaling $50,000. Now he is planning bumper crops in other "snob state" markets: California, Texas, Oregon, "anywhere there is a native population worried about the influx of outsiders...
...begins his career on the New England coast with the purchase of an aging trained bear called State O' Maine and a 1937 Indian motorcycle with sidecar. The seller is a vagabond named Freud, who after World War II lures Win into the Viennese hotel deal. The hapless entrepreneur is blinded by a radical's bomb and winds up at the third Hotel New Hampshire, in Maine, bought by his surviving children. Only the children do not have the heart to tell him that the resort has been turned into a rape crisis center; his life of illusion...
...issue is Casey's poor judgment in appointing a political crony, Max Hugel, to head the CIA'S clandestine operations. A New Hampshire entrepreneur with no relevant background in intelligence work, Hugel quit under fire two weeks ago when two former Business associates accused him of illegal stock manipulations before he joined the agency. The committee is also probing Casey's own business past, including findings by two courts that he and other directors of Multiponics, a New Orleans agribusiness firm, had deceived investors and operated the company to protect their own financial interests instead of those...
Last year Network grossed $1.5 million, and Hollender now plans to expand by including other cities (possibilities: Hartford, Conn., and London). He also nourishes hopes of breaking into the new cable TV market. Says the youthful entrepreneur: "Running Network is as close to becoming a college president as I ever want...