Word: entrepreneur
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...allows the Chinese currency to rise sharply, a move the senators believe would help cut America's trade deficit. Chinese businessman Liu Weiping attended a talk given by the senators to a group of students that included members of his executive M.B.A. class at Tsinghua University. Liu, a tech entrepreneur who has visited the U.S. several times and admires much about it, was appalled. Coburn, he claims, talked of himself as "a representative of Jesus. He spoke like he was preaching to us. They said, 'What are your criticisms of your own government?' I don't think they were deliberately...
...million Amount paid by media entrepreneur Robert Sillerman for an 80% stake in legendary boxer Muhammad Ali's name, image and likeness...
DAVE EGGERS The best-selling author and McSweeney's founder is also a social-work entrepreneur I nominate John Prendergast. He is a lucid and vocal "explainer" of what's happening in Darfur and what needs to be done. He has been working in Sudan for 20 years and has been instrumental in mobilizing Americans to get involved on a grass-roots level. Also Shirin Neshat, who is making some of the most riveting art about the Muslim world. It's majestic, timeless, frightening and even prophetic...
...friends. (She reads fast and has a flypaper memory.) Dinners during regional trips used to strand her at the top of a long table with predictable dignitaries; now she will be at a round table with perhaps a nurse, the leader of the local Sikh temple and an entrepreneur. Parties at Buckingham Palace are increasingly built around themes, like honoring transport workers and members of the emergency services after the London bombings of July 2005. She has aligned the palace with the modern world in other barely perceptible steps: relaxing the rules for the 30,000 invitees to her garden...
Precariousness is an essential element in the life of the entrepreneur, a French word now more associated with the much despised Anglo-Saxon "liberalism" and its merciless dog-eat-dog capitalism. But these days the best examples of the entrepreneurial spirit are hardly Anglo-Saxon: China, India, Korea, Chile, all rising and growing, even as France and much of Europe decline...