Word: entrepreneurs
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...Turner has used his share of Perils-of-Pauline financial maneuvers in building Turner Broadcasting System, the parent firm of Cable News Network and superstation WTBS. But the brash entrepreneur put a time bomb under his company when he bought MGM/UA Entertainment last March for $1.5 billion. As part of the purchase agreement for the film and TV production firm, Turner issued 53.3 million shares of preferred stock in Turner Broadcasting. A provision of the deal was that starting this June, he would have to pay dividends on those shares in the form of common stock in his firm...
Like all the President's children, Michael Reagan, 41, has had a rather protean career. He has been a boat salesman, gasohol entrepreneur and soap opera actor. This year Michael, the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and his first wife Actress Jane Wyman, will try his hand at writing. His family is not likely to be pleased...
...author. His latest project: We So Loved the Revolution, a coffee-table book that takes a backward look at himself and other young European and American radicals of the 1960s. The book is full of pictures and interviews with the likes of Yippie Turned Yuppie Jerry Rubin, now an entrepreneur. Since its September publication in France, the book has sold 30,000 copies and made the best-seller lists. It is being translated into English, Spanish, German and Portuguese and is the basis of a current four- part French TV series...
...rents the room to clubs for $218, Dyslin said, though the fee "might be a little low compared to [market prices]," said Cambridge real estate entrepreneur O'Neal Ingram...
...entrepreneur did not see a contradictionbetween personal wealth and public service. "It'seasy to make money," he said. "Lot's of dummieshave done it. There's nothing wrong with mixingthe...