Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Founder Kopp, for one, does not intend to make TFA her career, although she would like to see the organization become permanent. That appears unlikely without government support. Philanthropies rarely fund causes in perpetuity, and many of the current grants expire this year...
BILL BRADLEY The 6-ft. 5-in. former hoops star has the stature to be President, but he'll have to regain the competitive fire of his basketball days to make a serious...
...Boss? The Secretary of Health and Human Services has been criticized for being an ineffectual spokesman at the White House. Now it appears that Louis Sullivan can't make his subordinates listen to him either. Angered by his treatment at the San Francisco AIDS conference -- his speech was drowned out by ACT UP hecklers and he was pelted with condoms -- he returned to Washington and issued an angry order that contacts with ACT UP should be limited to those that are "necessary and productive." Translation: none. But Sullivan's subordinate, Anthony Fauci, head of AIDS research...
...French gave the world the word entrepreneur, but they have not given it many entrepreneurs. Most French businessmen still look to the government for cues and favors rather than trying to make quick profits on their own. Bernard Tapie, 47, is one of a new breed who is changing all that. Last week the Paris businessman made his boldest venture yet, offering to buy 80% of West Germany's Adidas, a company 15 times the size of his holding company, Groupe Tapie...
...shares as doubts spread that Tapie could muster the backing from French banks to finance the takeover. At the time he was aboard his 90-ft. yacht in the Mediterranean, but his company put out a statement saying "the total price" he would have to pay for Adidas "will make all those who doubt our financial ability look ridiculous." Some reports put the figure at $450 million. Tapie's bid for Adidas could also benefit from the French government's unofficial blessing. With the tacit approval of President Francois Mitterrand, Tapie in 1988 won a seat in the National Assembly...