Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeowner's headache is becoming the entrepreneur's opportunity. While the housing market remains flattened by mortgage rates that are approaching 17% in many parts of the country, business is booming for a hybrid real estate product known as the miniware-house, usually a one-story building of garage-like cubicles rented as neighborhood storage space to individuals, families and small businesses. Renters supply their own locks and can generally visit their cubicles as often as they like...
...central story locks two great financial houses, Struan & Co. (the "Noble House") and Rothwell-Gornt, in a mortal struggle. Throughout, playing off the rivals, are an American entrepreneur and his 26-year-old female partner, an executive sweet who seems a bit anachronistic for 1963. For readers who tire of bank runs and stock manipulations, the author weaves in an elaborate spy story that involves the CIA, the KGB, Britain's MI-6 and the spy networks of both Chinas. The sex is rather decorous, but for sports buffs, there are rousing horse races. And the roiling cast...
...brash entrepreneur tries to break NASA's monopoly...
...less likely space entrepreneur than Hudson, 30, is hard to imagine. A college dropout and self-taught engineer, he met David Hannah Jr., a wealthy Houston real estate developer, in 1979 after making a movie on space exploration. Hudson convinced Hannah that he could build a low-cost rocket using off-the-shelf hardware, and send satellites into orbit for bargain-basement prices...
...turn, has made him?the immigrant boy, the shoe salesman, the Stevensonian, civil rights-defending liberal Democrat "mugged by reality" in Editor Irving Kristol's phrase, until eventually he became the most recognizable kind of figure in modern American politics: the neoconservative, the crypto-Republican, the Tough-Man Entrepreneur...