Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Treasury Robert Rubin and President Clinton see fundamental flaws in a system that has led to banks facing more than $600 billion in bad or doubtful debt. But Prime Minister Hashimoto and top Japanese financial officials are in "stimulus package" mode, not "major restructuring" mode. As one young Japanese entrepreneur told me, if the trade negotiators craft a plan wherein no one is required to take responsibility for the flaws in the Japanese economic structure, "we'll do it." Otherwise, it is likely that nothing much will happen in terms of change...
...everyone's busy, and everyone has commitments. Beyond these problems, much more importantly, will you be able to follow your dreams? Regardless of whether you are dreaming of social work, academia or becoming an entrepreneur, your loans may be what send you towards more lucrative careers like investment banking or consulting. It has even been proposed that the choice of major (or concentration) can be affected by financial aid, with those on financial aid choosing more "practical" degrees...
...joints. And, yes, he lives in a house with no wife, no kids, no dog and hardly any furniture. "It's pretty sloppy," he offers. But Unz, 37, does have a hobby: attempting to turn public policy upside down. Over the past eight months, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley software entrepreneur has spent $1.2 million--more than half of it his own money--to pass a ballot initiative that would all but abolish bilingual education in California...
...doing it on someone else's terms. Instead, Silberstein is becoming an entrepreneur, starting a new company, Idiom Technologies, Inc., with several college friends...
...Some entrepreneur should organize a service that would pair off people talking to themselves, a buddy system that would allow them to go on with their soliloquies but would let them appear, as they walk down the street, to be conversing with each other. Many marriages go on for years along these lines...