Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple from the start. Smith, 56, an amateur actor and playwright who turned Bell Atlantic into the most venturesome of the seven Baby Bells, had come up through the staid bureaucratic ranks of AT&T before its breakup in 1984. Malone, 52, is a strong-willed, publicity-averse entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in operations research who built the fledgling TCI into the country's largest cable operator, gaining a reputation for ruthlessness along...
...profession? Cruise said he got "lucky." In the early eighties, he landed a slew of roles that our generation remembers from adolescence. These include "Endless Love," "The Outsiders" (sexy slicked-back hair and denim), "All the Right Moves' (football hunk), and "Risky Business" (Princeton-bound entrepreneur). Speaking of which, his mother and sister, who also came to celebrate the Pudding Event, said that while growing up, Tom was very much like the scheming, clever, but naive character, Joel, whom he played in "Risky Business." They had nice things to say about him, too, commenting on his early display of affinity...
...would simply stand pat, which was tantamount to a claim of victory. Nor was it clear why Huizenga, whose extraordinarily successful Blockbuster has been on a prodigious buying spree of its own for the past year, would cede control of his own company. Huizenga, a clever and willful entrepreneur who had built the company into not only the largest retailer of home videos and Hollywood's largest single customer but also the majority owner of Spelling Entertainment, Republic Pictures and the Florida Marlins baseball team, mystified analysts by agreeing to be the merged company's vice chairman. This left Redstone...
...political voyage of Ted Turner continues. First, the cable entrepreneur became a full-time booster of East-West friendship, sponsoring the Goodwill Games. Then he took up the cause of the environment. Now he is launching his most ambitious educational-programming venture yet: a yearlong series of shows about Native Americans...
...Jason Winkler, a student entrepreneur who heads the production of many of the shirts, believes that they are a "funny way to keep up an old rivalry." Other Yalies cynically suggest that it's more of an opportunity for school organizations, fraternities, and individuals to make a quick buck. Whatever the case, many Yalies say that this season's Game t-shirts are selling well in New Haven, despite their disappointment last year...