Word: entrepreneurs
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...denounced Zelaya as a communist who planned to turn the nation of sweatshops and banana plantations into a Soviet-style fortress. One of his worst crimes, allege the self-proclaimed patriots, was raising the minimum wage to $290 a month. "With this action, he declared war on business," says entrepreneur Jesus Sabat, 23, as he waves the nation's blue-and-white flag during the demonstration...
...late '90s, software entrepreneur John Zitzner was pretty close to being bankrupt. Yet within six months - in one of those typical "holy crap" dotcom-era stories - Zitzner had sold his company and become "a very modest millionaire." Fantastic. And in one of those typical "What do I do with all this money?" stories, he decided to help make the world a better place - specifically by co-founding a charter school in Cleveland. (Read TIME's report: "How to Raise the Standard in America's Schools...
There was more to Fisher than those infamous words. The longtime Yale professor was a successful entrepreneur (he devised and marketed a precursor to the Rolodex), the author of a best-selling textbook on personal hygiene, one of the most prominent backers of Prohibition and a leading eugenicist (that is, he believed the human race could be improved through the weeding out of "degenerates...
...Beckstrom, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, points out that Obama's nominee will need political skills to deal with the many voices that will want to be heard on cybersecurity, including many government departments - the Pentagon, various intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, among others - and private-sector bodies. "There's a lot of rice in this particular rice bowl," Beckstrom says. He knows from personal experience how difficult that can be: earlier this year, he quit as Director of the National Cybersecurity Center in March, citing interdepartmental politics...
...studied business leaders spanning most of American history. The entrepreneur of the decade, you say, is Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp...