Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forceful 20-minute TV address, the President portrayed tax reform as nothing less than "a second American Revolution." If enacted by Congress, he predicted grandiosely, it would produce a "great new era of progress, the age of the entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...
...like Jacoby & Meyers (140 offices in six states) and Hyatt Legal Services (161 in 20 states and the District of Columbia). Both are planning to expand, and will look with new interest at the many states, like Ohio, where restrictive ad policies may now be in jeopardy. Says Legal Entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, 34: "Because of the new decision, we are likely to be bolder on that score...
Whatever real-world parallels the playwrights may have had in mind for this shrewd, calculatedly savage entrepreneur, Le Roux has a life of his own, and on the grand scale. In Anthony Hopkins' brilliant, buoyant realization, he is a comic creation as monstrously beguiling as Tartuffe. He shares with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly...
...began five weeks ago," he says. The transaction further cements a remarkable partnership between two self-made men, each long accustomed to being his own boss and acting accordingly. On one side of the table is Keith Rupert Murdoch, 54, perhaps the most feared and grudgingly admired press entrepreneur in the English-speaking world. On the other is Marvin Davis, 59, son of a New York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends...
...Harvard Entrepreneur Evan C. Marwell '87 who co-runs a laser printing business with Macintosh computers, said HSA "satisfies the entrepreneur...