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Take a good look at George Feldenkreis, entrepreneur, and you can see the curiously split personality of the American economy as it wobbles toward the end of its seven-year boom...
...With games like skeeball, whack-a-mole and the claw, kids greedily collect the coveted green tickets which ultimately render cheap plastic totchkies. With just five wrinkled tickets, boys and girls can get sparkly geometric rulers, gold or silver sheriff badges or a plastic compass. For the more daring entrepreneur, a mini pool table or real set of walkie talkies can be won for a collection of 800 tickets-equivalent to about $80 in real money...
Jamaica's cast of characters is worthy of a Dickens novel, except Dickens' characters never said "ganga" so much. Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach...
...award arose from the donation of a late Kentucky entrepreneur named Edgar Wilson, who sought to encourage public appreciation of astronomy...
Once the business plan is pitched, Favalora said that the entrepreneur should suggest future directions for the partnership between entrepreneur and investor...