Word: entrepreneur
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Waving a Cohiba cigar in his expansive office overlooking downtown Montgomery, Ala., David Bronner talks enthusiastically about his investments: in an airline just reorganized after bankruptcy, a chain of luxury golf resorts and a group of television stations. Is he a gunslinging Sunbelt entrepreneur in the mold of Ted Turner? A hedge-fund manager? A contrarian private-equity investor? Not even close. Bronner, 58, is, in his own words, "a government bureaucrat"--the chief executive of Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), the pension fund for 290,000 state workers and retirees. An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable...
Dismissing concerns that revealing individuals’ genetic makeup could lead to discrimination, entrepreneur and scientist J. Craig Venter said Friday that since everyone has faulty copies of some genes, employers and insurance companies would not be able to discriminate if genetic records were made public...
...networking group called the Ladies, nine businesswomen who live and work in New Jersey, was formed 10 years ago for entrepreneurs. Members, who are ages 36 to 52, still take turns talking about specific work issues. But they're just as likely to discuss coping with a quarrelsome teenager or caring for an aging parent as they are to analyze a marketing problem. "One of the things we realized pretty quickly is that, especially if you're an entrepreneur, your personal life affects your business life," says Joanne Dennison, 43, who co-founded the group. "Our favorite saying is 'Leap...
...take anything for granted," says Albert Miniaci, 55, a vending-machine entrepreneur from Florida who is so smitten by Mongolia's exotic charms that he has taken seven trips to the country since 1996 with Nomadic Expeditions, an outfitter based in New Jersey. Miniaci has faced flash floods, watched craggy roads flip trucks like so many toys and once waited for three days in a remote desert settlement because a fuel shortage kept helicopters grounded in the capital. Dinosaur digs were his original lure to Mongolia, but now he gives significant time and money to support adult and child education...
...films as a double feature. Punch-Drunk Love, the latest triumph from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights), is a shining comic love story with powerful, artifice-free turns from Adam Sandler and Emily Watson; Philip Seymour Hoffman also has a few funny moments as a crass Utah entrepreneur. Meanwhile, Roger Dodger follows a suave but immature ladies’ man (Campbell Scott, in one of the year’s best performances) through a night in New York City as he shows his high schooler nephew the city’s romantic ropes. Wednesday, April 16, with Roger...