Word: solely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entrepreneurial pot of gold that used to be mostly a man's dream. While there have always been a few women with the initiative and opportunity to start a company from scratch, they were the exceptions. No longer. At least 3.7 million of the more than 13 million sole proprietorships in America are owned by women, nearly double the 1.9 million such businesses they owned ten years ago. The Small Business Administration expects that one-half of all self- employed people will be women by the end of this century...
Mamelodi is a black township of more than 300,000 on the outskirts of Pretoria. At Smith's request, not only was he about to become its white minister, but also he and his wife Ellen would be its sole white inhabitants. The Afrikaners, among whom Smith had spent his whole life, have a harsh word for behavior like that: Kwaardwilligverlating , meaning, literally, "malevolent parting." Says Smith: "It isn't just a divorce. It means you leave someone with the intention of destroying them. You become an enemy...
Giving up most of their shares in the Gucci company are the sons of Aldo, 83, the sole surviving son of the founder. A nephew of Aldo's, Maurizio Gucci, is still claiming 50% ownership in the firm, but his three cousins are contesting him in Italian court on the ground that he inherited his shares by forging his father's signature...
...fact, Duarte has had a hand in turning White House policy in El Salvador -- considered the Administration's sole success story in Central America -- into another potential failure, alongside Panama and Nicaragua. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador continue to insist that Duarte is making slow progress toward ending the war and establishing a democratic system, but other Western diplomats are more pessimistic. "Things are a shambles," says a West European envoy. "The Americans are in for a shock." Even State Department officials concede that the rosy analysis emanating from the U.S. embassy is "dreamwork...
Oscar, for openers, is the sole surviving child of a widower named Theophilus Hopkins, a naturalist renowned for his studies along the rugged English coast of Devon and a fire-breathing evangelical preacher. The lad eventually tastes a Christmas pudding, strictly forbidden by his father's severe regimen, is punished and rebels. He leaves home, settles in with the local Anglican minister, and eventually enters Oriel College, Oxford, to study < for holy orders in the Church of England. Unfortunately, no one has seen fit to pay his way -- not his impoverished adoptive father and certainly not his real...