Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Movie star Jane Fonda and media entrepreneur Ted Turner approached the Harvard campus from all angles yesterday--speaking at an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum, addressing an undergraduate class and eating breakfast in the Union...
...boast net worths of more than $100,000. Some are investing their earnings in lavish houses and businesses back home. A Vietnamese commercial center has opened in town to provide office space and services for companies dealing in everything from rice and caviar to fashions. Quips a thriving entrepreneur: "Doing business in Russia now is very easy because the Russians know nothing about capitalism...
Gerst said he is seeking an entrepreneur whowill be willing to engage in a "public-privatepartnership" for river transport. He hopes toutilize the tax advantages offered for providingnonpollutive transportation...
Earlier the same week in another part of South Central Los Angeles, black activist and entrepreneur Danny Bakewell, president of L.A.'s Brotherhood Crusade, led a coalition of minority contractors who were protesting their exclusion from riot-related demolition and construction by shutting down work sites that employed no African Americans. After one South Central site that had not a single black on a 10-man crew was shut down on a Friday, it was reopened the following Monday with newfound black workers. "Miraculously, black people were born and gained five years' experience," says Bakewell sarcastically...
...They represent something from the past in the sense that the opportunity for a couple of entrepreneur inventors to take an idea from inception to a production-level facility without major corporate support today would be almost impossible," says Shelor. "I'm amazed that they've managed to do that." Adds AEP chief engineer Jim Markowsky: "You've got to admire their tenacity...