Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audiences, it's a smart introduction to Hong Kong's top auteur-entrepreneur. New Yorkers can get a banquet of Tsui, with retrospectives starting May 25 at Manhattan's Anthology Film Archives and Brooklyn's Plaza Twin, and spiffy prints of his Once Upon a Time in China I and II on view at Manhattan's Film Forum...
...Bush says he is "concerned about rolling blackouts in California? I'm concerned what that could mean to entrepreneur growth and to high-tech industry." But his White House shows no new intention of lifting a finger to help, not with federally imposed price caps on wholesale prices, not with anything. And why should it? California is making Bush and Cheney look smart, and Democratic governor Gray Davis' optimistic conservation initiatives look a like a waste of money and breath...
...Over the years I have met some fascinating people in Italy," says Sancton, "but none more fascinating than Silvio Berlusconi." Sancton has been tracking Berlusconi's career since the 1980s when the ebullient entrepreneur took part in launching France's first private TV network - to the horror of a French cultural establishment that viewed him as a vulgar Italian parvenu. "When I heard Berlusconi was mounting a bid to run for Prime Minister in 1994, I thought it was just a publicity stunt to promote his business interests," says Sancton. But when he won, it was clear that a major...
...narcocrusaders are everywhere in this part of the world, as common here as the Internet entrepreneur seemed to be in the U.S. two years ago. Theirs is a growth business. Everyone seems to be on one side of the game or the other--except those unfortunate enough to be caught in the middle. Charts of coca production and the violence that goes along with it--kidnappings, massacres, executions--look like a NASDAQ chart from 1998. The jungles of Colombia and Peru and Bolivia are dotted with the paraphernalia buttressing a shadowy and bloody war: American radar systems, air bases...
Much of the effort is being bankrolled by three prominent philanthropists: New York City financier George Soros; Cleveland, Ohio, insurance magnate Peter Lewis; and Phoenix, Ariz., entrepreneur John Sperling. Working together they have spent more than $15 million to promote the voter initiatives. Their consultants are scoping out Florida, Maine, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio for 2002 ballot propositions. "States are going to be the engines of reform," predicts New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, a Republican who has pushed through two addiction-assistance bills this year. "It's still too hot to touch from a national political standpoint," he says...