Word: entrepreneur
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...administration also should have looked more closely at the motives of Johnny Chung, a California entrepreneur with ties to China who has donated approximately $300,000 to the Democratic party in the past two years, and has visited the White House on at least 50 separate occasions. In one of those visits (which, coincidentally, was in the same week that he donated $50,000 to the party), he escorted Chinese government officials to watch the President's weekly radio address to the public...
Trie, Seng's business partner, is an Arkansas restaurateur and longtime friend of Clinton who is believed to be the DNC contact who brought Wang Jun, a Chinese entrepreneur and the head of a military-owned arms company, to a coffee klatch for political donors hosted by Clinton...
Frans Swarttouw, former chairman of the Fokker aircraft company and one of the Netherlands' most colorful businessmen, bid an unusual farewell to his countrymen a few weeks ago. Stricken with throat cancer, the executive, 64, who once characterized an entrepreneur as "a guy who works hard, drinks himself into the ground and chases women," said he had stopped his painful therapy and opted out of a life-saving operation that would have left him an invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death...
...entrepreneur, and he encouraged me to do it," Sjogreen says...
...Wayne Huizenga is driving in the passing lane. Since Jan. 1, the billionaire entrepreneur has gone from neophyte car man to the nation's biggest car retailer. His Republic Industries has bought up new- and used-car dealerships whose revenues totaled $2.7 billion last year. That will make Republic bigger than current numero uno Hendrick Automotive Group of Charlotte, North Carolina, with $2.3 billion, Automotive News reports. TIME first detailed Huizenga's plans for a dealership-acquisition binge in December. Then, Huizenga, 59, had little more than a blueprint and a shopping list...