Word: entrepreneur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Argenbright started his new company, AirServ, in 2002, contracting with airlines to provide workers who check passenger IDs at checkpoints, along with services such as ticket processing, bus transportation and cargo handling. And now that his business once again could be supplanted by the federal government, the airline security entrepreneur is not shy about expressing his ongoing frustration...
...most basic bio-digester you've ever seen... the pipe comes out of it and into our engine, and it made electricity. And since the power was made locally, we had no transmission lines, and we had no infrastructure issues. And it created in each village three entrepreneurs. It not only wasn't sapping an economy, it was creating an economy. There was a guy now selling dung. If you annualized his 24-week income, he would have made $360 selling something that would not have had value. There was the guy running the generator. He was making a nice...
...city of Shenzhen, cradle of China's industrial revolution, is usually associated with impoverished migrant workers and cheerless gray factories churning out cheap toys, T shirts and sneakers for the world. While that gritty image represents Shenzhen's past, entrepreneur Pony Ma is a harbinger of its future. The 34-year-old Ma is an Internet tycoon with a fortune of nearly $500 million, thanks to the success of the Shenzhen company he founded in 1998, Tencent, China's largest instant-messaging service with 532 million registered users. The company's home is a tidy, landscaped campus where employees...
...after admitting she smoked. Von Schnurbein insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink." If you eat a pungent lunch, says Jenkins, "you might stink...
...backgrounds.“He did not wear his money on his sleeve,” McPhillips said. Lamont’s campaigners are trumpeting the same theme in response to criticism from Lieberman about Lamont’s wealth keeping him disconnected from the average voter.The cable television entrepreneur released his personal tax returns last month after pressure from Lieberman, showing an adjusted gross income of more than $2.9 million for 2005. His advisers estimate that Lamont and his wife have a combined total wealth of around $200 million, according to The New York Times, about 10 percent...