Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oklahoma Entrepreneur Henry Griffing, who rushed wired FeeVee to Bartlesville three years ago, and failed, is ready to try again-this time with a network spread over three dozen towns in the Southwest...
...corporate morality may result in prices and wages which sabotage the market mechanism and systematically distort the allocation of resources." Shareholders' Democracy? This new corporate morality is the product of the professional manager, the new type of corporate boss, who has taken over from the oldtime owner-entrepreneur. Such men, says W. Lloyd Warner, professor of social research at Michigan State University, are nothing like the popular caricature of the Organization Man. What makes a top executive is that he has a highly developed sense of independence, can make great individual decisions that would drive less capable men into...
Over it all hovered Golden Door Keeper Edmund Bordeaux Szekely (pronounced Saykay), a bald, round-bellied Transylvanian who obviously shuns his own exercises. Entrepreneur Szekely is a sometime archaeologist, philosopher, biochemist and author (he claims 69 books). By his own admission, he speaks 14½ languages, the 50% lingo being English. His cosmetics, says he grandly, are drawn from history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci...
Admiring Kenyans say that Go-getter Ryan has stirred more publicity for East Africa in six months than the government has in 20 years. Asked if he expects to turn a profit on his investment, Entrepreneur Ryan turns magically into Philanthropist Ryan, insists that any profit will be used to inaugurate a program to preserve East Africa as the most important wild animal stronghold known to man, "or something like that...