Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles suburb of Glendora, entrepreneur Keith Porchia cheerfully dons a hard hat to check on the progress of the 51-unit apartment complex he is developing. In Winter Springs, Fla., Sheelah Ryan, a retired real estate agent, meets with the board of the Ryan Foundation to map programs for what she calls "the new poor." Somewhere in southern Atlantic waters, Anthony Palermo, formerly of the U.S. Navy, cruises with his family aboard his own yacht, joyfully named Picked...
Such successful systems are bound to proliferate. For a political entrepreneur, they could be models not only for Medicaid, but for a revolution in system of health care administration...
...Woods Hole, Mass., for example, hyped his search for the wreck of the Titanic to lure funds for more serious efforts to develop sophisticated underwater cameras and robots. "It's a very fuzzy line," says Barry Gold of the National Academy of Sciences. "When is a scientist a good entrepreneur, and when does he become P.T. Barnum...
...hurt her deeply, but Drumm now says, "I really owe that girl a thank-you because she put a fire under my tail." With the help of a government program for dislocated workers, Drumm spent the next two years earning a bookkeeping degree, and now works for a local entrepreneur. It will take a nationwide confluence of such grit, entrepreneurship and effective public programs to speed the recovery -- and put Americans back to work...
...deficits of more than $100 billion, Rome can no longer afford to wink at deadbeats. To embarrass delinquents, Finance Minister Rino Formica launched Operation Glass House, giving computerized lists of the past decade's 270,000 tax evaders to the press. The lists include such figures as leather-goods entrepreneur Roberto Gucci and Benito Mussolini's son Romano...