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...critics, billionaire publishing baron Robert Maxwell is a capricious, blustering egotist. He is also a cunning entrepreneur who has added Macmillan to his growing U. S. stake...
Bradley Weidman thought he could bank on the sugarbowl remembrance of a 1930s child movie star when he named his new soft drink the Shirley T. What the 26- year-old entrepreneur from Encino, Calif., did not count on was the marketing savvy of Shirley Temple Black, 60, former Ambassador to Ghana and a Republican activist. Black, who has granted manufacturers 163 licenses in the past 50 years for everything from Shirley Temple dolls and music boxes to greeting cards, is suing Weidman for using her name without permission...
...Orthodox Jewish entrepreneur buys the theme park and TV empire from which Jim and Tammy Bakker once transmitted their high- energy evangelistic appeals. But will Christian tourists ever return...
...what's a Jewish entrepreneur going to do with a 500-acre Christian theme park, a born-again retirement village and North America's biggest all- Christian cable TV network (sent to 13 million homes, 2 million fewer than before the scandal)? "I have made no decision whatsoever" he told a press conference but said the project, with 1,700 undeveloped acres, is a good investment with excellent "breakup value." The local church that Bakker founded is not involved...
...economy's undisputed hero in the 1980s has been that footloose, creative pathfinder the entrepreneur. At a time when corporate America often seemed incapable of daring innovation, the likes of Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates forged breakthroughs in semiconductors, software and personal computers. Even in lower-tech fields, such risk takers as Domino's Pizza Founder Tom Monaghan demonstrated an impressive ability to create new products and services that no dominant corporation could match. "This has been a great age to be living in if you're an entrepreneur," exclaims Alfred Rappaport, a Northwestern University...