Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wealthy entrepreneur had made a fortune in the electronics businesses of Northern California's "Silicon Valley." In his mid-40s, possessing a proven record of management, he seemed the very model of a Reagan top appointee. As he sat in the drab Washington office of E. Pendleton James, the President-elect's personnel director, visions of the sub-Cabinet danced in his head...
...Thompson with 50 rounds of ammo rents for $26. Given the Thompson's firing rate of 30 rounds per 2 sec., the gunner gets less than four seconds' worth of ear-battering bliss. Entrepreneur Day is permitted by federal authorities to sell the machine guns, which cost from $500 to $3,000. For better or worse, he has found 100 buyers in three years. Day, who is convinced that the U.S. faces an impending wave of terrorism, also believes that machine-gun slinging will find nationwide acceptance as a sport. "People go bowling or skiing or skydiving...
...death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler. Whatever else he was, or wasn't, he unceasingly recorded the early Northwest. Winter Brothers is Seattleite Ivan Doig's memoir of his bloodbrotherhood with this remarkable pioneer via the millions of words he left behind...
Three years later, Boyer joined with a young entrepreneur named Robert Swanson, then 28, to exploit this amazing-and, in some eyes, dangerous-new technology. Only lately has their firm, Genentech Inc.. begun to turn a profit. But its prototype bacterial factories have been extremely busy. They have already produced half a dozen different substances, including insulin, human growth hormone and interferon, the antiviral agent being investigated as a cancer cure. Genentech (pronounced jeh-nen-tek) has also paid off handsomely for Boyer (his initial investment: $500). Offered publicly last October, its stock shot up within 20 minutes...
...million-a-year enterprise in fewer than six years. And now the Smithsonian Institution has added some frosting by representing Amos in its business Americana collection. In a Washington, D.C., ceremony, Amos formally gave the Smithsonian his trademark Panama hat and embroidered shirt, thus becoming the first entrepreneur to lose his shirt because he was in the chips...