Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment said he had never met Mrs. Hatfield and had sold the apartment to Tsakos directly, the Senator elaborated. Mrs. Hatfield, he said, had been paid $15,000 for showing Tsakos several apartments, including some in the Watergate that he did not buy, another $15,000 for giving the entrepreneur's wife decorating tips and $10,000 for suggesting investment properties for Tsakos. The financier claims he paid Mrs. Hatfield $30,000 for telling him about the Watergate apartment and $10,000 for lending him furniture and contracting decorators. Tsakos says he did not pay her for investment advice...
...result of a 1904 the been controlled largely by a cartel known as General Funerals. Entrepreneur Michel Leclerc thinks that is unfair. Says the businessman: "A bride can choose her wedding dress anywhere she pleases. We should be able to choose our coffins anywhere we please as well...
...more urban, more hopped up, less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population of 234,000) went...
...British Rock Music Entrepreneur Richard Branson, 33, succeed where Freddie Laker failed? The answer began unfolding last week as Branson's new airline, Virgin Atlantic, made its maiden flight from Gatwick Airport near London to Newark Airport near New York City. It carried 465 passengers, most paying a cut-rate $138, about $230 less than current standard transatlantic fares. The price will rise to $167 on July 1. An ultra-plush first-class service is also available at $1,400, about the same that other carriers charge for first class...
...such driven leader is Michael Blumenfeld, 37, president of BSN Corp. (1983 sales: $20 million), a Dallas mailorder sporting goods house. Seventeen years ago, Blumenfeld was laid off from his job as an industrial-guard supervisor. Noticing that tennis nets on public courts were often in tatters, the fledgling entrepreneur loaded 100 new nets into his Volkswagen van and set out on his first sales trip, returning a few weeks later with a $4,000 profit. Today, BSN markets more than 2,000 items, including golf clubs and tennis wear, and its payroll has blossomed from 21 workers...