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...French gave the world the word entrepreneur, but they have not given it many entrepreneurs. Most French businessmen still look to the government for cues and favors rather than trying to make quick profits on their own. Bernard Tapie, 47, is one of a new breed who is changing all that. Last week the Paris businessman made his boldest venture yet, offering to buy 80% of West Germany's Adidas, a company 15 times the size of his holding company, Groupe Tapie...
Such accomplishments would be fulfillment enough for most humans. But they attest to only a few of MacCready's many skills. He has piloted conventional aircraft as well as sailplanes and hang gliders, is an ardent environmentalist and a successful entrepreneur, the founder and president of AeroVironment Inc., a small, innovative firm that specializes in monitoring and cleansing the environment, alternative energy and energy-efficient vehicles. He also frequently dons the hat of an educator, lecturing at schools, universities and business meetings, urging the formal teaching of the kinds of "thinking skills" he feels are necessary to meet growing environmental...
Neither do other members of the family. TIME sought interviews from six of the family members -- all male -- who work for the company. All declined, including Si, his brother and some descendants who are said to be heirs apparent. Says Si's friend, magazine entrepreneur Peter Diamandis: "The only certainty about what will happen to the company is that, whoever runs it, the boss's family name will be the same...
...program was chosen "The Best of 1987" by PC Magazine. Today Boyan, 19, a math and computer-sciences major at the University of Chicago, is also president of his own company, Boyan Communications. Though the firm has its headquarters in an unusual place -- Boyan's dorm room -- the young entrepreneur so far has sold 2,000 copies of his software...
...cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...