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Word: entrepreneurism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just two weeks ago, by producers who claim he sold the rights to shared properties -- the Pink Panther films and the James Bond films -- too cheaply. In January a court in Italy upheld an old conviction for fraudulent bankruptcy that Parretti has been fighting for nearly a year. The entrepreneur has also been shamed in Hollywood's most public court, the box office. All the films MGM has released since the acquisition (including Rocky V, Not Without My Daughter and Desperate Hours) have been disappointments or outright flops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Hours for MGM | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...involving foreign firms, and to carry out audits of their wares, cash holdings and accounts. The crackdown is supposed to wipe out the black market, but it may well trample underfoot the first fragile growth of free enterprise. Said Deputy of the Russian parliament Artyom Tarasov, a new Soviet entrepreneur: "This is no longer the politics of the free market but the politics of discipline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: New World Order? Or Law And Order? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...Gates' leadership and personality that make others believe the Duke scholar is the best person to build an Afro-Am Department at Harvard. Peers most frequently refer to him as an "entrepreneur," "energetic" and "cosmopolitan...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Can He Save Afro-Am? | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

That's not a tough question. The Godfather Part III, is a gangster picture, after all, and Michael is the antihero with whom the series lives and dies. The true perplexer is whether filmgoers will care to see, or care about, an aging entrepreneur haunted by specters from films nearly two decades old. Because this is a movie about loss, Pacino must relinquish the steely calm of his youthful Michael; now he is Lear without the grandeur. Nor can G3 find suave new twists and characters to propel the plot and lure the teens. Garcia, an electric actor, swaggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Schemes And Dreams for Christmas | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...knows the shrewd and innovative Chilean entrepreneur, however, expects the loss of the Iraqi account to set him back for long. With a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Cardoen first worked in the U.S. and Chile as a mining engineer. He founded the company that bears his name in 1977, after Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Cluster Bombs and Kiwis | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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