Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lots of new excitement--and more is coming," Branson beams. "That's what I like." What attracts him to a new venture? "If it's something that interests me. If I think it is done badly by other people and feel I could do it better. If we can shake up an industry--and have fun doing it." He likes to start from scratch and build a new company his way. "An entrepreneur can go in and put his toe in the water, as we did with one airplane--see whether it is lukewarm, boiling or freezing cold...
...there no dark side to this fun-seeking tycoon? Just try competing against him. Within weeks, his new European airline--no-frills Virgin Express, owned with City Hotels--will shake up the high-altitude Continental-fare structure, cutting some prices as much as 50%. Says Branson: "We'll give the major airlines in Europe a proper run for their money...
...Drawing more than 350,000 visits a month, it is the most prominent of a growing number of online sites, such as the Silicon Investor www.techstocks.com or the newsgroup misc.invest.stocks, where investors can ask questions and share knowledge. Says David Gardner: "The small investor wasn't getting a fair shake. Wall Street analysts often had conflicts of interest on the stocks they were touting. They were trying to generate commissions and make their clients' stocks...
...companies feel they don't get a fair shake in the media, so the History Channel's offer was enticing. The 18-month-old cable network, seen in 19.2 million homes, was gearing up The Spirit of Enterprise, a series of hourlong documentaries, each of which would recount the history of a different corporation--and be produced by the corporation itself. AT&T, DuPont and General Motors were among those who had signed on; the first show, on Boeing, was already nearing completion. But last week, after the series was publicized and questions were raised about how objective these "histories...
Partly this is because Tyler is virtually the only young person around; everyone else is tired or bored or dying. But also because she truly is at ease with herself and the camera. Her allure can seem a come-on, but she's not a flaunter; she doesn't shake her beauty. And remember, she's only a kid (the credits for Heavy include an acknowledgment to "Miss Tyler's tutors"). Even now she takes an unselfconscious delight in the attention paid to her--in the '90s it's called poise. And that will serve her well if she ever...