Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orthodox Jewish entrepreneur buys the theme park and TV empire from which Jim and Tammy Bakker once transmitted their high- energy evangelistic appeals. But will Christian tourists ever return...
...economy's undisputed hero in the 1980s has been that footloose, creative pathfinder the entrepreneur. At a time when corporate America often seemed incapable of daring innovation, the likes of Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates forged breakthroughs in semiconductors, software and personal computers. Even in lower-tech fields, such risk takers as Domino's Pizza Founder Tom Monaghan demonstrated an impressive ability to create new products and services that no dominant corporation could match. "This has been a great age to be living in if you're an entrepreneur," exclaims Alfred Rappaport, a Northwestern University...
...Republicans consider themselves the entrepreneur's greatest patrons, but they failed to patronize one entrepreneur in the Superdome shopping arcade. Renee Donwen had a concession selling photographs of customers posing with life-size cardboard cutouts of Bush and Reagan...
...looked like the vehicle the country had been fighting for, unbeholden to the past in design and loaded with unheard-of engineering features that became standard issue years later. And Tucker himself was the kind of citizen for whom the troops had been making the world safe, the maverick entrepreneur whose capital is mostly pluck and luck, making his way upward in a supposedly open society...
...language newspaper, tools around town in a silver Jaguar and has started plans to build a shopping center. The reasons for his rapid rise: long hours of work, plenty of thrift and $4,800 in start-up capital from an unconventional source. Like thousands of other immigrants, the budding entrepreneur tapped an ethnic loan club for his seed money...