Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sanchez, Davi gets to play one of the best Bond villains in years. He also gets to deliver a few deadpan one-liners, which are occasionally amusing. Basically, Sanchez is just an entrepreneur with a sadistic streak. ("I want you to know, this is nothing personal. It's purely business," he tells Felix as he is lowered to the waiting shark...
What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about business than trying...
...quintessential academic entrepreneur," says Cavanagh. By enterprising in programs inareas such as ethics, poverty and state and localgovernment--disciplines which had not beendeveloped at any other schools of public policy inthe country--Allison took bold risks, he adds...
...types were offered: Rjanog, a sour rye, and Borodinsky, a sweeter bread - flavored with coriander. The so-called peace bread was also being offered to customers at the posh Waldorf-Astoria hotel and the Russian Tea Room. U.S. entrepreneur Fred Kayden arranged the imports after 7 1/2 months of negotiations with Soviet officials and a "perestroika entrepreneur" in Moscow. But Kayden may not have a black-bread monopoly for long. Zaro's Bread Basket, a New York City bakery chain, plans to start selling imported Soviet bread for $5 a loaf. Would Muscovites pay that kind of price for Wonder...
Sunbathers are concerned about protecting their skin these days, but nobody likes to handle greasy, gritty suntan-lotion bottles. One entrepreneur's answer is Sun Center, a vending machine that dispenses tanning oil with a spray applicator. A customer activates the spritzer by depositing 50 cents. A hand-held nozzle then emits a light mist for 40 seconds, generally enough to cover those hard-to-reach places...