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...rare breed: an urban entrepreneur working in direct competition with the state. With the help of a brother and sister, Bai handles 80 to 100 customers a day in his neat, red-painted studio, which he keeps open until 8 p.m. seven days a week. He works in the darkroom until midnight, processing the negatives and retouching them to eliminate warts, wrinkles and other unflattering features. "I don't rest," Bai says. "Even during festivals, I never close." Bai usually charges less than one yuan (500) for a portrait, undercutting prices at the state-run photographic studio...
...surely, she will not be buying them well, simply because she does not understand them. But all designers are subject to such whims, and the public pays for them. Customers cannot shop in showrooms. They must rely on stores, whether run by conglomerates or a single entrepreneur, and on the taste of the buyers. No one doubts the profitability of such an operation, but there is also, inescapably, something slightly strange about it. Clients, collectively, are not only customers; they become children for whom Mommy and Daddy are still buying clothes. And what you can get is only what...
...American League," was last in attendance as well, and has been without its original team for 20 years as a result, ever since, management decided to reincarnate and seek larger profits as The Minnesota Twins Fittingly. Twins owner Calvin Griffith is now eager to move to Tamps. Yachtsman entrepreneur Ted Turner has turned the Atlanta Braves into a controversial, competitive, and dearly-loved local institution. But it was not so long ago that the Braves worked out of Milwaukee. And before that, they were the Boston Braves. And before that, a long, long, time ago, they were the Boston Bees...
...nature. I do not think any of us is so naive as to believe that ratings are not a factor. And ratings are up." CNN executives counter that the ratings boost may be offset by the costs of live coverage. Still, the network's formula is working: Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner announced last week that his empire had made a profit last year for the first time since he launched...
...York City-based Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka interviewed music-industry performers, critics and producers in an effort to put the Jackson phenomenon in perspective. Says she: "Jackson is a master entrepreneur. He has an uncanny sense of what the public wants and surrounds himself with top-notch artists and advisers...