Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McArthur] was not enamored by the thought that he should [steer alumni donors to other divisions of the University], because he thought it would come out of the Business School's contributors," says Warren Alpert, a New York entrepreneur and 1947 Business School graduate who this year donated $20 million to the Medical School...
...Angeles with his wife (Dana Delany) and two kids. His life starts taking strange turns when an ex-girlfriend (Kim Cattrall) seeks his help in locating her missing son. The mission turns out to be a ruse to lead Harry to Senator Tony Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) -- presidential aspirant, television entrepreneur and guru of a political-religious movement known as New Realism. Kreutzer's neofascist aspirations have something to do with hallucinogenic drugs, new technology that enables people to interact with holograms, and a battle between underground political camps known as the Fathers and the Friends...
...even wilder statements. But last week the stocky and shadowy man known as "Jezda the Boss" was holed up in Israel, condemning Serbian aggression in the Balkan war and hatching plans to preside over a government-in-exile. Such grandiose schemes come naturally to Vasiljevic, 45, the maverick entrepreneur who sponsored last year's Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match in Yugoslavia and has variously been suspected of everything from gun- running to illegal currency trading...
...research in monkeys, they can be lowered by regular exposure to alcohol. By the same token, says Kagan, a child with a fearless personality may turn into a criminal if reared in a chaotic home, but given a stable upbringing, "he could well become a CEO, test pilot, entrepreneur or the next Bill Clinton...
Probably Los Angeles' most self-delusional response to the riots was to put too much store in the Reaganesque idea that the entire job of turning the city around could be accomplished by a volunteer group headed by a miracle-working entrepreneur. Mayor Bradley appointed Peter Ueberroth, former baseball commissioner and the organizer of the profitmaking 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, to head an organization called Rebuild L.A. One of the first mistakes, as Ueberroth himself admits, was the name, which was too expansive and has been changed to RLA, intended to sound like the more neighborly phrase...