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Just about every kind of entrepreneur has talked up the emerging opportunities in the new Eastern Europe, but now Colombia's powerful CALI DRUG CARTEL is exploring the possibilities. In October, Czechoslovak authorities seized 100 kg of cocaine hidden in a truckload of Colombian coffee. After the coffee was traced to a Polish ship that had stopped in Colombia, Polish police uncovered another 100 kg in the rest of the shipment, which was sitting in a Warsaw warehouse. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials speculate that the cartel hopes to take advantage of the legal chaos in the region to transship...
Something other than realism is unmistakable from the opening moments of Mt. Morgan. The title refers to an automobile skid in mid-blizzard that has left . the central character, an aging insurance entrepreneur, physically shattered and confined to a hospital bed. Yet this wreckage of a man rises, leaving behind the outline of his slung and plastered body, to pace the stage and engage other characters in conversations he recalls, conversations he imagines, conversations he wants to have, and sometimes conversations he daydreams about in the midst of other conversations...
...Angeles suburb of Glendora, entrepreneur Keith Porchia cheerfully dons a hard hat to check on the progress of the 51-unit apartment complex he is developing. In Winter Springs, Fla., Sheelah Ryan, a retired real estate agent, meets with the board of the Ryan Foundation to map programs for what she calls "the new poor." Somewhere in southern Atlantic waters, Anthony Palermo, formerly of the U.S. Navy, cruises with his family aboard his own yacht, joyfully named Picked...
Hubbard, a gregarious Indiana entrepreneur who ran Pierre du Pont's 1988 presidential bid, points out that those who object to the council's rulings are free to mount challenges in the courts. Hubbard says the council's goal is to improve the nation's competitiveness, not to shelter industry from regulation. "The higher the cost of the regulation, the higher the cost of the product to the consumer," he explains. "Our whole effort is to protect the consumer and the American worker...
Such successful systems are bound to proliferate. For a political entrepreneur, they could be models not only for Medicaid, but for a revolution in system of health care administration...