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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trend go? If busy consumers hire a maid to clean their homes, wondered entrepreneur David MacKay, wouldn't they pay someone to come over and make dinner? Voila, the Personal Chef Association was born. Formed in 1991 with five chefs, the organization has mushroomed to 1,400, with 10 to 20 customers each. These culinary fairy godmothers prepare custom meals that cost about $7 to $8 a person, and need only a quick, 15-min. warm-up in the oven. "It's a service whose time has come," says MacKay. "What's for dinner is a problem in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy Of Not Cooking | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

CITA currently has four clinics in the U.S., all of which are affiliated with major hospitals, and charges $6,800 per treatment. But it is not the only game in town. Storefront clinics, using variations of CITA's patented procedure, have sprung up across the nation, and a California entrepreneur is selling franchises for at-home detox centers for $1,000 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is E.R.'s Rx? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within a warren of offices in the bunker-like hallways under Beijing's Capital Stadium. As state-sponsored basketball and badminton teams practice overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gets Wired | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

LONDON: What do novelist Jeffrey Archer, Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson and Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson have in common? Answer: They all have the opportunity to fulfill their dream to become the first Lord Mayor of London elected by a popular vote, after the British capital voted late Thursday in favor of having one. Another thing they have in common -- Londoners don?t want them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Red' Scare for Blair | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

...example, an aspiring entrepreneur wishing to start a college in Harvard, Mass. could not name the university "Harvard." That name is taken...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CRIMSOM STAFF WRITER | Title: CLAIMING THE NAME HARVARD | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

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