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...called the "barbarian invasion of Europe." But like others from Wall Street who formed the core of the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment after the war -- and unlike more recent policymakers -- Harriman was not an ideologue who regarded the Soviets as an implacable "Evil Empire." As a banker and entrepreneur, he believed it was possible to deal with the Soviets the way a businessman might treat a tough competitor: with firmness and patience...
Bernard Tapie is a prototype of the new French entrepreneur, the personification of an emerging capitalist spirit that is popping up in unexpected places all around the world. With an enthusiastic push, he asks, "Why are we, who have invented everything from fashion to gastronomy, not the most powerful economic force in the world?" In addition to emceeing a television show, Tapie has peddled his views in a best-selling autobiography titled Winning and a popular record called Success in Life. Following the example of his hero, Lee Iacocca, Tapie appears in openly nationalistic television commercials for his own products...
...clones are able to put low prices on their computers because they are produced by low-wage laborers in Asian countries, notably South Korea and Taiwan. Perhaps the most aggressive of these firms is the Canton, Mass.-based Leading Edge, which is run by Michael Shane, a wealthy entrepreneur who first made big profits by selling blue jeans and wigs. In early 1985, while other companies like Compaq were making IBM- compatibles and selling them at IBM prices, Shane began buying state-of- the- art computers from Daewoo, the South Korean electronics giant, and offering them...
...shares responsibility for Wilson's misdeeds. Originally the agency set up dummy corporations through which Wilson funneled goods and services to foreign groups deemed friendly to the U.S. But according to Maas' account, the CIA looked the other way after Wilson left the agency to become an entrepreneur. To the author, Wilson is a sort of cloak-and-dagger Great Gatsby, although there is nothing romantic about his exploits. Manhunt is about naked greed, a tale full of knaves and sociopaths pursuing a twisted dream of private enterprise...
Faced with long odds, an entrepreneur must know when to give up and when to adapt. Robert I. Earl owned an Elizabethan "theme restaurant" in Orlando called Shakespeare's of Church Street that provided an evening of light wassailing and big eats; last year he moved his operation closer to Disney World and changed the restaurant's name to King Henry's Feast. Why? "People who come to Orlando want to have fun," he told the International Drive Bulletin, "and too many people thought Shakespeare's was something serious and cultural...