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  • But he happened to meet an entrepreneur from Liverpool in Soho who was down in London by pure chance.†   (source)
  • Researchers have become entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • It stood vacant until the end of World War II, when it was purchased and completely renovated by Horace Derwent, millionaire inventor, pilot, film producer, and entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • ACTUALLY, IT WASN'T "JUST LIKE THAT"-WE BUSTED butt to get it going, working long hours and sweating out all the details the way any entrepreneurs do.†   (source)
  • At first the town held the line, but when entrepreneurs from Bussard City moved in with gift shops, T-shirt concessions, tours, and datachip booths for the tourists who were coming in larger and larger numbers, the local business people first dithered, then wavered, then decided unanimously that, if t here was commerce to be carried on, the profits should not go to outsiders.†   (source)
  • She would make him completely at home in white Christian entrepreneurial Memphis, but in the way that a blind man became comfortable in a well-furnished room.†   (source)
  • Soon the level of construction would increase even more, as entrepreneurs prepared to cash in on the expected crush of exposition visitors.†   (source)
  • They were dream-filled, but discerning, too, assessing—the eyes of an entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • Uncle Enzo reckons that with the Mafia's emphasis on loyalty and traditional family values, they can sign up a lot of these entrepreneurs before they become Narcolombian citizens.†   (source)
  • Entrepreneurs from all over the country went to San Bernardino, visited the new McDonald's, and built imitations of the restaurant in their hometowns.†   (source)
  • One was Jandro Mares, a 30-year-old budding entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • She says he wanted an old-fashioned woman, not a successful and gregarious entrepreneur like her mother, Flo.†   (source)
  • And so, between operatic encores and Neapolitan serenades, his creative talent and his invincible entrepreneurial spirit made him the hero of river navigation during the time of its greatest splendor.†   (source)
  • Most were well situated, my Lord—in the entrepreneur class.†   (source)
  • Today many of these same Vietnamese are property owners and entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • There's definitely a down-home, small-town flavor to our fair, as one lemonade entrepreneur found out the hard way.†   (source)
  • And one imagines that the American mainland glittered for him the way it did for all those entrepreneurs and pilgrims and runaways and adventurers who crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific hoping to carve out a piece of it for themselves.†   (source)
  • Would these little girls become stay-at-home Betty Crocker moms, or business entrepreneurs like Mrs. Fields?†   (source)
  • Over the years, they had tuned the walk, prising up an A board and nailing it here, lifting up an F board and pounding it back down there until the walk was as near onto being melodious as weather and two entrepreneurs could fashion it.†   (source)
  • The government waged its jihad in the Nuba with the goal of terrorizing civilians until they fled the fertile valleys—land the government began distributing to its cronies, mostly Arab entrepreneurs from the north.†   (source)
  • Entrepreneur!†   (source)
  • Lainie was an entrepreneur, a hard driver, a bargainer, our huckster daughter, we called her, and she was living in Tucson with husband Dex.†   (source)
  • Some commentators look at prostitutes and see only sex slaves; others see only entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • I met her husband, Delworth, a Texas oil entrepreneur who chewed tobacco and drank bourbon.†   (source)
  • You see, Jean was an entrepreneur and he respected an individual trying to do something difficult.†   (source)
  • I probably should tell you that I've recorded a couple of our conversations about your entrepreneurial ventures.†   (source)
  • Manchester itself was a creature of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company; plotted out by its entrepreneurs in 1837, just as Weslaco was plotted out for the citrus boom in 1919.†   (source)
  • A few months ago he was listed in The Mail as one of the cleverest entrepreneurs of his generation.†   (source)
  • He said he was from Chicago, where he worked as an entrepreneur, whatever that meant.†   (source)
  • Americans-businessmen, entrepreneurs, and hopefuls with maps of gold and silver mines- had brought the game with them into Mexico, but there were no organized leagues for the young.†   (source)
  • Many of them are fathers, homeowners, world travelers, and successful entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • My entrepreneurial young friend is impressed with any alphabet after a name despite the fact that left to my own resources I couldn't afford one of these villas for more than a couple of days.†   (source)
  • Oh, very profitable, Joseph, absolutely uncanny at recognizing cutting-edge technology in start-up companies and then acquiring them—or backing entrepreneurs who need cash to develop their ideas.†   (source)
  • The de Villiers family has failed to see the entrepreneurial potential of this property.†   (source)
  • Someone I think she'd met on Starlight Station—an entrepreneur, she called him, but with a sarcastic tone.†   (source)
  • My dad taught me to be a salesman, hard worker, good man, visionary, entrepreneur, problem solver, good husband, good father, and great hunter.†   (source)
  • I was a bit of an entrepreneur, though, and took advantage of her generosity.†   (source)
  • "Winthrop Tremaine," replied the spirited entrepreneur, "Winner, for short.†   (source)
  • Such Corybantic revels as envisioned by the first owners never took place, however, since through some incredible oversight the raunchy entrepreneurs failed to realize that they had located their establishment in a neighborhood substantially as devoted to order and propriety as a community of Hard Shell Baptists or Mennonites.†   (source)
  • He was a man of large entrepreneurial vision.†   (source)
  • Each new entrepreneur had simply tacked another mile or so onto the shelf, raised his own transparent hemisphere, and gone into business.†   (source)
  • "Chris was always an entrepreneur," Billie says with a laugh.†   (source)
  • That doesn't mean he isn't brilliant or an extraordinary entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • HOUSES MINOR: planet-bound entrepreneur class (Galach: "Richece").†   (source)
  • HOUSES MAJOR: holders of planetary fiefs; interplanetary entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • Banana Republic was killing the ability of entrepreneurs like himself to move this country forward.†   (source)
  • It is a big established company attempting to behave like a small entrepreneurial start-up.†   (source)
  • Ellaha is charming, disciplined, and ambitious; in another culture, she would be an entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • Jase got Phil's passion for duck hunting and I got his entrepreneurial spirit.†   (source)
  • Former striker for Manchester United, now management guru and sportswear entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • An entrepreneur offered the Associated Press $200,000 for the rights to the photo.†   (source)
  • I'll be one of those people featured in articles about incredibly successful entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • Zach is a brilliant social entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • Kiva lets you do the same for microlending to entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • One of Uncle Leo XII's constant preoccupations was that river navigation not pass into the hands of entrepreneurs from the interior with connections to European corporations.†   (source)
  • I'd be a great entrepreneur!†   (source)
  • One entrepreneur, Charles Kiler, believed that once his hotel opened, "money would be so plentiful it would come a runnin' up hill to get into our coffers."†   (source)
  • Lots of young entrepreneurs would be driving BMWs or Acuras, but the organization of which Jason is now a part puts a premium on tradition and family values and does not go in for flashy foreign imports.†   (source)
  • But that was just a hobby; Atwood was primarily an entrepreneur and a trader who dealt in everything from storage tanks to damaged merchandise.†   (source)
  • Up and down the street were entrepreneurial immigrants in colorful clothes—embroidered guayaberas and flowing kente and spray-painted T-shirts—hustling everything from mix tapes to T-shirts to incense from crowded sidewalk tables.†   (source)
  • "He's an entrepreneur."†   (source)
  • Patrick had been named Stortfold Young Entrepreneur of the Year two years previously, and had not yet quite recovered from the honor.†   (source)
  • He has been transfigured into a latter-day entrepreneur, the greatest superstar salesperson of all time, who built a multinational outfit from scratch.†   (source)
  • A male entrepreneur put on a dress one day and slipped in with a group of women visitors, then went home and made his own cotton gin.†   (source)
  • We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • It is whispered that in the old days, when the U-Stor-It was actually used for its intended purpose (namely, providing cheap extra storage space to Californians with too many material goods), certain entrepreneurs came to the front office, rented out 1O. by-lOs using fake IDs, filled them up with steel drums full of toxic chemical waste, and then abandoned them, leaving the problem for the U-Stor-It Corporation to handle.†   (source)
  • In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists regard failure as just a first step toward success.†   (source)
  • In San Francisco a twenty-one-year-old entrepreneur named Sol Bloom realized that the Chicago fair would let him at last take advantage of an asset he had acquired in Paris two years earlier.†   (source)
  • For a young wouldbe lawyer, being born in the early 1930s was a magic time, just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer, or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • Earlier, in July 1891, the exposition had granted a contract for the work to the Hygeia Mineral Springs Company, headed by an entrepreneur named J. E. McElroy, but the company had accomplished little.†   (source)
  • The company's phenomenal growth over the past two decades was driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of its longtime chief executive, Charles "Mike" Harper.†   (source)
  • One of the ironies of America's fast food industry is that a business so dedicated to conformity was founded by iconoclasts and self-made men, by entrepreneurs willing to defy conventional opinion.†   (source)
  • On March 9 a steamer named Guildhall set sail for New York from Alexandria, Egypt, carrying 175 bona-fide residents of Cairo recruited by an entrepreneur named George Pangalos to inhabit his Street in Cairo in the Midway Plaisance.†   (source)
  • In the autobiographies published every year by the billionaire/entrepreneur/rock star/celebrity, the story line is always the same: our hero is born in modest circumstances and by virtue of his own grit and talent fights his way to greatness.†   (source)
  • So is being an entrepreneur, and the miracle of the garment industry, as cutthroat and grim as it was, was that it allowed people like the Borgenichts, just off the boat, to find something meaningful to do as well.†   (source)
  • Despite all their success as businessmen and entrepreneurs, as cultural figures and advocates for a particular brand of Americanism, perhaps the most significant achievement of these two men lay elsewhere.†   (source)
  • It was also explicitly entrepreneurial.†   (source)
  • While Las Vegas portrays itself as a free-wheeling, entrepreneurial town where anyone can come and strike it rich, life there is more tightly regulated, controlled, and monitored by hidden cameras than just about anywhere else in the United States.†   (source)
  • Together they opened a series of small piecegoods stores, painstakingly learning the details of smallbusiness entrepreneurship.†   (source)
  • Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience.†   (source)
  • If you are like most people, it took you a little longer to put the word "Entrepreneur" into the "Career" category when "Career" was paired with "Female" than when "Career" was paired with "Male."†   (source)
  • Then he saw in his mind's eye the masses of humanity meshing through the jammed, colourful, frequently filthy streets, and the crowded hotel lobbies and lounges with their softly lit chandeliers of gold filigree where the well-dressed remnants of the empire reluctantly mingled with the emerging Chinese entrepreneurs — the old crown and the new money had to find accommodation… Alleyways?†   (source)
  • There was also a tennis court for the highest executives who paid an entrepreneurial Chuy a few pesos an hour to be their ball boy.†   (source)
  • Entrepreneurship, the American Way.†   (source)
  • It is a classic stunt, a staple of traditional skateboarding, which is why when two entrepreneurs decided in the mid-1980s to start manufacturing athletic shoes aimed at hard-core skateboarders, they called the company Airwalk.†   (source)
  • I want to stay at home under the duvet, watching daytime telly and being a millionairess entrepreneur with Suze.†   (source)
  • I'm a leading financial journalist hobnobbing with a leading entrepreneur at a leading London restaurant.†   (source)
  • Allan Rosenfield struggled to combine this public health perspective with practical medicine--and he became a social entrepreneur in the world of maternal health.†   (source)
  • Scarily intelligent entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • Zach is part of an exploding movement of "social entrepreneurs" who offer new approaches to supporting women in the developing world.†   (source)
  • That put her in touch with other social entrepreneurs around the globe, building connections and exchanging ideas.†   (source)
  • Yet Sunitha brazenly marched into the red-light districts and started her own organization, in a way emblematic of social entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • Drayton is the founder of Ashoka, an organization that supports and trains social entrepreneurs around the world.†   (source)
  • " Mukhtar's courage is having an impact, and she has shown that great social entrepreneurs don't come just from the ranks of the privileged.†   (source)
  • While women worldwide have generally not risen far in the ranks of political leaders, they often dominate the ranks of social entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • Think how much more effective a women's rights movement could be if backed by an army of social entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • In particular, many women have risen as social entrepreneurs to provide leadership in the new abolitionist movement against sex traffickers.†   (source)
  • Social entrepreneurs tend not to have the traditional liberal suspicion of capitalism, and many charge for services and use a business model to achieve sustainability.†   (source)
  • "It does seem to be a major blind spot in development and government efforts," notes David Bornstein, who wrote an excellent book about social entrepreneurs called How to Change the World.†   (source)
  • By giving women an alternative way to pursue careers and earn incomes, as entrepreneurs, Injaz also facilitates the expansion of the labor force and economic development as a whole.†   (source)
  • One of the promising efforts to stimulate change in the Arab world is led by Soraya Salti, a thirty-seven-year-old Jordanian woman who is promoting entrepreneurship in middle schools and high schools.†   (source)
  • Often they have been propelled by exceptionally bright and driven social entrepreneurs who had encountered the "treetops" efforts and modified them to create far more effective bottom-up models.†   (source)
  • It was only about 1980 that the ice began to crack and the social arena as a whole made the structural leap to this new entrepreneurial competitive architecture.†   (source)
  • But she is a restless, ambitious woman, buzzing with entrepreneurial energy, so she struck out for Hong Kong in 1985 to work for a trading company there.†   (source)
  • By 1700, however, a new, more open architecture was beginning to develop in northern Europe: entrepreneurial/competitive business facilitated by more tolerant, open politics….†   (source)
  • She is indeed one of the great social entrepreneurs of Afghanistan (a perfect model for Ellaha, the young Afghan woman in jail, if she isn't murdered by her father), and constantly in danger.†   (source)
  • Aid workers function in the context of an aid bureaucracy, while social entrepreneurs create their own context by starting a new organization, company, or movement to address a social problem in a creative way.†   (source)
  • Drayton's brief history of the rise of social entrepreneurs goes like this: The agricultural revolution produced only a small surplus, so only a small elite could move into the towns to create culture and conscious history.†   (source)
  • "Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or to teach how to fish," says Bill Drayton, a former management consultant and government official who popularized the idea of social entrepreneurship.†   (source)
  • Jordana and the high school students she works with are reminders that the rise of social entrepreneurship has also facilitated the rise of the part-time aid worker--even one sitting in a high school classroom.†   (source)
  • "Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or to teach how to fish," says Bill Drayton, a former management consultant and government official who popularized the idea of social entrepreneurship.†   (source)
  • He was a bold entrepreneur, and he desired nothing more than complete safety in his investments, freedom from attention to details, and the thirty or forty per cent. profit which, according to all authorities, a pioneer deserves for his risks and foresight.†   (source)
  • There were still people in Clyde who remembered the frontier, and like America itself, the town lived by a mixture of diluted Calvinism and a strong belief in "progress," Young Sherwood, known as "Jobby"--the boy always ready to work--showed the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that Clyde respected: folks expected him to become a "go-getter," And for a time he did.†   (source)
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