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...This cuts close to the real contrast between Dole and Bush: the small-town entrepreneur vs. the no-fingerprints manager. Bush's strengths are in precisely those areas that elude Dole, such as organizational competence. That was evident on Friday in Michigan, where the Bush forces teamed up with Kemp's to outmaneuver Robertson at the Republican state convention. Bush wound up with 37 disputed delegates and Kemp with 32, while Robertson's supporters cried foul and walked out after getting only 8. Dole skipped the contest...
...after he shaped a floundering garment workshop into a flourishing business, Bu Xinsheng of southern Zhejiang province was hailed in the Chinese press as a "trailblazing entrepreneur." His Haiyan plant became an obligatory stop for visiting bureaucrats and journalists...
...thin cigar, Carlo De Benedetti, the Italian industrialist, began confidently. "Allow me to introduce myself," he said. "I was born in Turin. I'm 53 years old. I'm not really sure where I live, but it's somewhere between Turin, Milan and airplanes." Then the high-flying entrepreneur proceeded to explain why he wanted to do what many proud Belgians viewed as the unthinkable, to gain control of Societe Generale de Belgique, their country's largest and most pervasive company. His ambition: to assemble the first giant pan-European holding company that would prove big and diversified enough...
...gifts as an entrepreneur are formidable. "Andrew is a brilliant natural exploiter of his own shows," says Mackintosh, who co-produced Cats, Song & Dance and Phantom. "It runs parallel with his creative talent. He understands showmanship: knowing how to launch a song, finding the right artist to promote it, doing the right programs and interviews. All of these things he does with consummate skill." Probably only Lloyd Webber could have written his Requiem as a memorial to his father and then turned the Pie Jesu into a hit song (sung by Brightman and a boy soprano) that climbed...
...Ollie North posters, and a few even talked of his running for President. That may be difficult if, as widely expected, North is indicted in 1988 by Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. By now, the Olliemania of midsummer is little more than a distant memory, and a California entrepreneur who lost $30,000 in unsold Ollie dolls is converting his leftover inventory into Gorbachev dolls...