Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anticipating a surge in "distance learning," cable entrepreneur Glenn Jones in 1987 founded the Mind Extension University. Based in Englewood, Colo., it beams college-credit courses to 36,000 students across the country, under the aegis of such established institutions as the University of Minnesota and Penn State. Last fall a branch of the University of Maryland began offering the nation's first four-year bachelor of arts program via Mind Extension; 60 students are enrolled. "Today's students are often working," explains Paul Hamlin, the Maryland dean in charge of the program. "They need to be able to compete...
Smith attracted the publishers' attention not only with his outspoken style but with his open solicitation of business from college professors in Michigan. The entrepreneur even advertised his own system for making restitution to publishers: Smith charges customers one cent per page for royalties and planned to send them an annual check...
...concern now is the depressed market for gas, which is still the target of most drilling because its plentiful reserves are largely untapped and exploration carries tax breaks for investors. "It's a bloodbath," says $ gas entrepreneur and former corporate raider T. Boone Pickens. "How many more hits can the industry take...
...deeper level, power plays a more urgentrole than prestige. Cats turn the station-wagonmom into entrepreneur, make the insurance salesmanan absolute monarch with uncontested authorityover a feline ream. Human fascination with sex haslong spilled over to a vicarious interest in theromantic lives of domesticated animals. One couplesays, "Ever since we got our first Ocicat fiveyears ago, we've been really into breeding...
More is what he gets, thanks to the sudden disappearance of Matty Hylan, a flamboyant millionaire who owns a conglomeration of companies, including the one that employs Browne. The runaway entrepreneur leaves behind a crumbling financial empire and the commitment he had made to skipper a new Altan Marine model in an around-the-world sailing race called the Eglantine Solo. Hylan's beleaguered lieutenants scramble for a replacement and find him in one of their own employees, Owen Browne...