Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stumbled--"I can't understand why no one wanted to buy Swiss watches from a 12-year-old and an 11-year-old," Dan jokes--but it gave the boys a feel for the joys of capitalism. "From the beginning," Steve says, "it was clear I'd be an entrepreneur...
...other men who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He first confounded moviegoers in 1982 as Nathan Landau, Meryl Streep's psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice. A year later, he backflipped effortlessly into the running shoes of Harold Cooper in The Big Chill, a successful entrepreneur at odds with his counterculture roots. Even his dual character in Dave--the story of an ordinary man pretending to be President--reflected a Hamlet-like internal struggle between heart and mind...
However, it was the delectable cheesecake recipe of one entrepreneur's mother that gave birth to the chain in Beverly Hills, where the first franchise opened...
...security, employing a large number of bodyguards. He is litigious, and his dismissal of scores of Harrods' employees also invited litigation against him. And despite the riches he flaunts--a fleet of 64 Rolls-Royces, properties on London's Park Lane, a $32 million yacht--his record as an entrepreneur is very mixed. Last year the board of the weekly Observer rebuffed al Fayed's attempts to buy the paper, saying it was not for sale. In 1995 Rupert Murdoch shut down his Today newspaper rather than sell it to al Fayed. Bids to purchase the London News Radio station...
...bless Steve Jobs. His courage and commitment to Apple Computer are in the spirit of a true entrepreneur. Apple lighted the minds of young people, in the same way that the Rural Electrification Administration lighted rural America more than 60 years ago. With people like Jobs, the future of America's youth is right on track for the new millennium. MILT SMEDSRUD Fergus Falls, Minn...