Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When President Ford began sporting his lapel button proclaiming WIN (for Whip Inflation Now), a Miami entrepreneur named Marvin D. Baida was quick to see the possibilities. But when he tried to peddle WIN pins for a quarter each, there were few takers. Then Baida had an inspiration: he started selling a 25? button that declared SIN (for Stop Inflation Now). The public took to SIN instantly: 60,000 pins have been ordered, and Baida has branched out into T shirts and bumper stickers (HONK IF YOU WANT...
Press restraint is almost a contradiction in terms. So it is up to the judiciary. The judge must be a modern legal entrepreneur who can manage the business of a fair trial by persuading jurors to be objective, eliminating those who cannot be and exercising a restraining influence on all extraneous forces that could cause a tilt. Theodore R. Kupferman, Associate , Supreme Court Appellate Division, New York City...
...THERE'S not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet," a wrinkle-faced, cigar-chomping Jewish businessman assures the nineteen-year-old entrepreneur. "A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right...
...women's division, after a couple of dazzling seasons in which it gained equal footing with the men's, has tamed down a bit. Margaret Court, last year's Forest Hills winner, stayed home in Australia because she recently gave birth to her second child. Superstar-Entrepreneur Billie Jean King has lately been in something of a slump. Thus much of the suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from...
...equally imaginative restaurant has been installed inside the old grain exchange in Bloomington, Minn. One entrepreneur has re-created an antique cinema in Cleveland. Its name: The Last Moving Picture Company...