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...Belgium, as well as Japan - an idea that repulses and outrages him. "I can't imagine slaughtering a horse [to eat]," says Pickens, "It's absolutely un-American." The horses are slaughtered at one of three plants, two in Texas and one in Illinois, all owned by a Belgian entrepreneur. "We don't eat horsemeat here, so it does seem peculiar that someone from Belgium owns the kill plant and the meat is sent to Europe," he says. "Why not in their own countries? Why come to America to do the dirty deal...
...Budding Entrepreneur Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced last month that he was giving up his day-to-day duties at the company to devote more time to charitable giving-and with Warren Buffett's blockbuster $30 billion pledge to the Gates Foundation, he will be busy. TIME's April 16, 1984, cover story profiled the future philanthropist...
...peerage - as membership of the Lords is called - followed three years later. Not everyone was so lucky. Four men recommended for peerages last year were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission amid concerns that they had recently dipped into their pockets for Labour. One of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed he had been encouraged to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application form. The police have indicated that they may quiz Blair in the course of their investigation. "This mess was inevitable," says Labour M.P. and former Europe Minister Denis...
...Times swatted him with its august contempt. In an editorial of March 24, 1966, the day after the Supreme Court upheld Ginzburg's conviction, the paper harrumphed: "Ginzburg was clearly publishing pornography... The Court inescapably concluded that Ginzburg had no scholarly, literary or scientific interests; he was strictly an entrepreneur in a disreputable business who took his chances on the borderline of the law and lost... The pornographic racketeers have cause to worry, and their defeat is society's gain...
When I first got here, I was a disciplinarian. I put processes in place, thought there was always a right versus wrong. I realized over about a six-month period of time that I was getting on [owner and then CEO Gary Erickson's] nerves. He was an entrepreneur, trying new things. Every rule I set up, he broke it. We sat down and had a beer and realized that what each other had, we wanted a little of. I wanted to be able to release creative energy. He knew he needed processes in place...