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Word: entrepreneurism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Realizing that many people treat their dogs and cats like children, Cynthia Grey, 34, a Hollywood entrepreneur, came up with what she considers a perfect present for the pampered pet. She packaged ordinary dog and cat biscuits in sampler boxes covered with silver foil to resemble assortments of exquisite chocolates. The names for the products: Dogiva and Cativa. Grey sent samples last spring to such departent-store chains as Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, which quickly decided that the bonbon biscuits would make excellent Christmas gifts at about $10 a box. Grey, a former Playboy bunny and wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Godiva, Dogiva and Cativa | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

When the actors do relax and let their hair down, the results are delightful. Cobb, who seems to have the most fun on stage, turns in an electric performance as Billy Crocker, a quick-witted entrepreneur with a perpetual crush. As female impersonator, or gleefully mugging across the stage in a two-step, Cobb is, well, the top. Cam Thornley also makes the most of his role as Moon-face Martin, a public enemy who can't move up from his #13 ranking. Under wraps in priest guise, Moon delivers a sidesplitting mock sermon and, later, inspirational song urging Billy...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Most of it Goes | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

...Dartmouth Entrepreneur club president Robert Melnnis said the bookstore, which would have been the club's major project for this year, was prohibited for three reasons, including fear that the project would upset the balance between the college and the already existing Dartmouth Bookstore...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: NO BOOKS | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...public buildings. At Brisbane's Crest International Hotel, the Early American Inn became the Australia II Inn, its Statue of Liberty decked with the Australian flag, a stuffed koala bear placed in an arm. The stock exchanges saw a surge in shares connected with any enterprise of Perth Entrepreneur Alan Bond, Australia II's backer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Cup Runneth Under | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...Australian campaign has had an unlikely Nelson: Allan Bond, 45, a chunky, feisty Perth entrepreneur and onetime sign painter, who has spent $16 million in ten years pursuing what many of his countrymen dismissed as a manic obsession. This is his fourth bid, Australia II his third boat. In Ben Lexcen, 47, Bond found a naval architect who could radically change the design of a 12-meter boat, a field that has seen little technological innovation in years. In secret tank tests in The Netherlands, Lexcen developed a keel like nothing ever used before: with two delta-type wings weighing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best Cup Challenge Ever | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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