Word: entrepreneur
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...first enterprises were connected with farming: a group of peasants would set up a roadside market to sell their crops and perhaps buy a truck to haul their own produce as well as, for a fee, food grown by other peasants. But private entrepreneurs and village collectives have now expanded to all kinds of other businesses--inns, restaurants, stores, tailor shops, beauty parlors and light manufacturing like assembly of TV sets--often in competition with government-owned businesses. Some entrepreneurs have even opened services in major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen...
...most diverse and appealing actors of his generation, at home on Broadway as a runaway soldier in Shaw's Arms and the Man or a rapacious, loony buccaneer in The Pirates of Penzance, onscreen as a psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice or as a nice-guy running-shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last week Kline returned to Papp's Public Theater off Broadway and took on the ultimate challenge: Hamlet...
...produces four times as many engineers as the U.S., and its spending on basic R&D is accelerating smartly. What's to stop innovation from breaking out all over? Skeptics have a ready answer: theft of intellectual property. Innovation depends on the value of ideas being protected, so the entrepreneur with a technological breakthrough reaps the rewards--not "six guys down the street who've stolen it," says Jim Hemerling, senior vice president of Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai. In the past two years, companies from General Motors to Sony to Cisco have complained about intellectual-property theft. China...
STEPPING DOWN. MOMOFUKU ANDO, 95, culinary entrepreneur who in 1958 invented instant ramen noodles, a convenience-store staple and a $10 billion industry worldwide; as chairman of Nissin Food Products Co.; in Osaka. Ando was inspired to start his food business by the privations of the country's post-World War II depression. "I was sure the world could be peaceful only after having enough food," he said last week. He will continue to advise the company as founding chairman once his resignation is effective June...
...starts with the entrepreneur: Mark Zuckerberg and the team have deep passion to build a compelling experience for college students. I believe that Mark and the team can continue to create a long-term compelling set of products that will deeply integrate with the college experience,” Breyer wrote...