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...capitalism, says Croll, 38, is "backing the right people." So far, he has proved to be remarkably good at that. A managing partner of Boston's TA Associates, a firm that currently handles more than $500 million in venture funds, Croll teamed up in 1979 with a young Boston entrepreneur named Steven Dodge, who wanted to make a mark in the cable-television industry. With TA's money and strategic guidance, Dodge became founder and chairman of American Cablesystems, an enterprise now worth more than $200 million. For his part, Croll became the communications specialist within...
...money to spend on television in the final weeks." All told, the G.O.P. hopefuls are expected to spend some $9 million. So far the champion cash collector and the candidate with the most media sizzle is Zschau, 46, a former Stanford business professor and successful electronics entrepreneur (founder of System Industries, Inc.) who has earned broad respect after only two terms in Congress. At fund raisers across California, high-tech execs like Hewlett- Packard Co-Founder David Packard and other businessmen such as Reagan "Kitchen Cabinet" Member Armand Deutsch hail Zschau as "one of us" and provide a copious flow...
...this era of the entrepreneur, nearly everyone and his brother are thinking big. But Charles and Maurice Saatchi, London's most successful admen, are thinking gargantuan. These brothers always have. Maurice, 41, once likened his ambition to a giant iron flywheel that almost no one could stop. For his part, Charles, 42, has "an insatiable desire to own and dominate everything," according to a former colleague. Their attitude gets results. The advertising agency that the brothers started in 1970 has mushroomed into the largest in Europe...
...corporation, which has supervised development of the fair. Pattison has personally overseen thousands of details, approving every exhibit design and reviewing all cost estimates. One of his most impressive achievements: completing construction of the fair for $283 million, or $6 million under budget. Boasts Pattison, a 51-year-old entrepreneur who owns a Vancouver-based real estate, communications and financial services conglomerate, which had 1985 sales of $1 billion: "I'm not saying this is a no-risk proposition, but I think I can say that no world-class exposition has been better set up than this...
...battered the regions that produce petroleum. In Saudi Arabia, an Egyptian worker is likely to lose his high- paying job and return home to poverty. A Mexico City family may no longer be able to afford meat and vegetables because government food subsidies have been slashed. A well-drilling entrepreneur in Oklahoma could face bankruptcy and the loss of his business to creditors. A bank loan officer in California may be forced into a different career because the oil-lending business has declined...