Word: entrepreneur
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...cable television entrepreneur released his tax returns last month after pressure from Lieberman, showing an adjusted gross income of more than $2.8 million for 2005. His advisers estimate that his total wealth is around $200 million, according to The Times, about 10 percent of which comes from his inheritance...
When surfer girl Bethany Hamilton was attacked by a shark off the North Shore of Kauai, Hawaii, in 2003, she lost an arm--but not her drive. Now 16 and still home-schooled, Hamilton has blossomed as an entrepreneur, building a miniempire of merchandise, including a perfume called Stoked and an eponymous line of accessories sold at teen favorite Claire's. She is also working on a young-adult fiction series and three advice books. "It's been really exciting," she says. "I'm happy I'll be able to tell my story and inspire other girls...
...Belgium, as well as Japan - an idea that repulses and outrages him. "I can't imagine slaughtering a horse [to eat]," says Pickens, "It's absolutely un-American." The horses are slaughtered at one of three plants, two in Texas and one in Illinois, all owned by a Belgian entrepreneur. "We don't eat horsemeat here, so it does seem peculiar that someone from Belgium owns the kill plant and the meat is sent to Europe," he says. "Why not in their own countries? Why come to America to do the dirty deal...
...Budding Entrepreneur Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced last month that he was giving up his day-to-day duties at the company to devote more time to charitable giving-and with Warren Buffett's blockbuster $30 billion pledge to the Gates Foundation, he will be busy. TIME's April 16, 1984, cover story profiled the future philanthropist...
...peerage - as membership of the Lords is called - followed three years later. Not everyone was so lucky. Four men recommended for peerages last year were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission amid concerns that they had recently dipped into their pockets for Labour. One of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed he had been encouraged to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application form. The police have indicated that they may quiz Blair in the course of their investigation. "This mess was inevitable," says Labour M.P. and former Europe Minister Denis...