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...line of less-sweet but intensely flavored sodas such as Dry Valencia Orange, Dry Meyer Lemon and Extra Dry Ginger Ale. "When you grow up, your tastes change," he says. "You want drinks that are less sweet and more flavorful." And he's not the only soft-drink entrepreneur chasing this market. Tommy's Naked Sodas are all-natural beverages made with cane sugar (as opposed to the corn syrup that has sweetened sodas since the late 1970s). Tommy's orange actually tastes like an orange, and his lemon-lime is crisp and tart, not sugary. Fizzy Lizzy...
PASSIONADA. Leading actor Jason Isaacs portrays compulsive gambler Charles Beck, who pretends to be a successful fishing business entrepreneur. He courts Celia Amonte, a Portuguese widow, after she receives some encouragement from her teenage daughter. Amonte (Sofia Milos) reluctantly falls in love with him, at least until she discovers his true occupation. The Dan Ireland film received rave reviews after its first screening as the closing picture at the Seattle International Film Festival. Passionada screens...
...August and September. These days you're more likely to come across a Cold Stone than a Ben & Jerry's or a Haagen-Dazs. Although Baskin-Robbins remains the industry leader with 2,271 U.S. locations, Cold Stone grew five times as fast last year, according to Entrepreneur magazine. For the first half of this year, the closely held company says, it rang up sales of $71 million, a 56% jump over the same period last year...
Private television in Italy, which I founded, became an element of liberty, in breaking the monopoly of state TV. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom...
...political threat. Support has risen in internal polls from 7% to 17% in the past eight months. A minimum of 10% is needed to win seats in parliament. Analysts attribute the spike to economic hard times - Cem is seen by many as a Turkish version of Silvio Berlusconi, an entrepreneur whose appeal lies in his business success and can-do attitude. But anti-Western sentiment is growing in Turkey in the aftermath of the Iraq war, partly as a result of the U.S. government's harsh criticism of the country for failing to admit U.S troops. Paradoxically, Uzan's troubles...