Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RICHARD BRANSON writing about Pan Am founder Juan Trippe is a little cheeky on our part, given that Trippe was a renegade who took on the entire industry for the right to create cheaper fares, while Branson, founder of Virgin Airlines, is a renegade who...well, you get the idea. Branson is probably the most colorful tycoon of his generation, with a penchant for starting new businesses and crash-landing balloons...
...that I could recall his tight, sweet-tempered face. She gave me the choice of the dashing John as a fighter pilot in World War II, the one with the goggles dangling from his neck, or the older John I knew, who sold real estate. I took the more recent shot...
...things that dump foam or water on you, and they're battery operated. I stole all the batteries and took...
...U.A.W. was organizing auto factories that had thousands of workers; Hoffa focused on small trucking companies with a simple two-step campaign. He would threaten to bomb employers' trucks if they didn't enroll in his union. Then he carried out the threat. It got results. His organizers took a cut of the dues and initiation fees of every new member. It was a franchise scheme that attracted Mafiosi and created a feudal structure of warlords...
...summer of 1981, IBM announced the PC that would break open the computer business and eventually marginalize Apple. Jobs took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal headlined "Welcome, IBM. Seriously." Shortly afterward, he flew a small entourage to Redmond, Wash., to tell Microsoft about the Mac and persuade the programmers to write for it. Bill Gates didn't need much prodding. He agreed to produce the software--and then promptly launched a copycat project that would become Microsoft Windows...