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Gerst said he is seeking an entrepreneur whowill be willing to engage in a "public-privatepartnership" for river transport. He hopes toutilize the tax advantages offered for providingnonpollutive transportation...
Earlier the same week in another part of South Central Los Angeles, black activist and entrepreneur Danny Bakewell, president of L.A.'s Brotherhood Crusade, led a coalition of minority contractors who were protesting their exclusion from riot-related demolition and construction by shutting down work sites that employed no African Americans. After one South Central site that had not a single black on a 10-man crew was shut down on a Friday, it was reopened the following Monday with newfound black workers. "Miraculously, black people were born and gained five years' experience," says Bakewell sarcastically...
...They represent something from the past in the sense that the opportunity for a couple of entrepreneur inventors to take an idea from inception to a production-level facility without major corporate support today would be almost impossible," says Shelor. "I'm amazed that they've managed to do that." Adds AEP chief engineer Jim Markowsky: "You've got to admire their tenacity...
...social questions. Since 1980 the platform has taken a hard line against abortion and promoted the appointment of jurists who back that view. Now, with the Supreme Court poised to undermine or demolish Roe v. Wade, many Republicans want the party to moderate its stance. Stone, a direct-mail entrepreneur who has raised millions for conservative causes, is collecting money for pro-choice candidates...
...selling]," says Jason C. Mitchell '92, a chemistry concentrator in Quincy House. After a two-week sale, the novice entrepreneur amassed a $450 profit by hawking furniture, a weight set, a rug and bookshelves...