Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while others are button-down bankers with M.B.A.s. Some are immigrants or the sons of blue-collar workers, while others are from old established families. Most are still little known outside their own fields. Frederick W. Smith, 37, is just another guy named, well, Smith. Yet his company, Federal Express Corp., has become a $600 million firm by delivering packages that "absolutely, positively have to be there overnight," as its ads claim. Nolan K. Bushnell, 39, invented Pong, the first video game, in 1972. He then sold his company, Atari, to Warner Communications in 1976 for $28 million. Steven Jobs...
Smith received a grade of C on the paper, which was almost a charter for the company he founded: Memphis-based Federal Express. Now almost ten years old, Federal Express has grown to handle 100,000 parcels and letters nightly. Last year's revenues reached nearly $600 million, and profits totaled $59.3 million...
Unlike many of the entrepreneurs, Smith was wealthy before he began Federal Express. A Viet Nam vet (200 missions in forward-control planes) and the son of a millionaire Memphis businessman who died when Smith was only four, he put $4 million of family money into his idea for Federal Express and went to New York City on a search for more. Smith was able to persuade half a dozen institutional investors with his sharp intellect and directness and several market research reports predicting that Federal...
MORE DISTURBING to many is the fear France has "Finlandized" itself by creating a dependence on the Soviet Union for energy. Doomsday scenarios pervaded French publications of the last two weeks. One, in L'Express, entitled "Suddenly in the Summer of 1986," saw the Soviets entering East Germany to crush a popular anti-communist uprising. In retaliation the alliance--miraculously united--boycotts all trade with the U.S.S.R. The latter then curtails the flow of natural gas to Western Europe, whose economies suffer crippling bolws. One can easily fill in the rest of the apocalypse...
...human beings are severely malnourished; they are not living on welfare, nor are they thinking about their private beliefs and about plebiscites. At the moment they are dying of hunger. Yet so much are beliefs the passion of their existence that, when they are not dying of hunger, they express their beliefs in work such as the massively graceful, dazzingly intricate stone palace of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, now being embraced in luxuriant verdure...