Word: entrepreneurism
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UPDATE An Entrepreneur Checks Out Iraq...
Demetrios Coupounas, an avid outdoorsman and entrepreneur, dreamed of tapping into the money spigot known as the Pentagon. But until last year he had come up parched. A co-founder of GoLite--a privately held outdoor-gear firm based in Boulder, Colo.--Coupounas tried to sell military purchasers on his company's lightweight tents, backpacks and sweat-wicking T shirts. But even after calling evaluators at the Army's gear-testing center in Natick, Mass., meeting with sales reps who hawk wares to the military and calling Navy SEAL officers directly, he had booked just a handful of individual sales...
MARRIED. Actor-director EDWARD BURNS, 35, and supermodel CHRISTY TURLINGTON, 34; in San Francisco. Burns, who arrived on the scene in 1995 with his film The Brothers McMullen, wed yoga entrepreneur and antismoking activist Turlington after a tabloid-chronicled courtship of 2 1/2 years...
...Zhijian Shenzhen entrepreneur nailed by authorities for running illegal taxi operations and forging official documents. Given a 17-year jail sentence in April, Wu is $24.1 million in debt...
...million Total that Shanghai entrepreneur Ye Lipei wagered during 19 visits to a casino in Melbourne...