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    Entrepreneurs Personality for Being Successful in Business Miss. Sarita Ghanshyam Tiwari, (M.Com. M. Phil.) e-mail: tiwari_sarita@rediffmail.com Abstract Business success may causes due to many factors, but the greatest determinant of the business success is the entrepreneur himself / herself. Therefore, the question of what makes a successful entrepreneur is very important. There have been many answers to this question. Some people think entrepreneurs are born, others

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    Lumber Kings of the 19th Century- John R. Booth and Frederick Weyerhaeuser John Rudolphus Booth (1827-1925) and Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1843-1914) were two well-known entrepreneurs of the North American lumber industry in the 19th century. They are very contrasting characters that appear to have nothing in common. They are from different parts of the world; Booth is Canadian and Weyerhaeuser is German. They did not share the same faith or educational background. Booth was Presbyterian and went to

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    In the spring of 2011, right around the time Donald Trump was humiliated by Barack Obama during the president's speech at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, placed a call to Richard Mack. Kushner was thirty years old, a decade and a half younger than Mack, but in many respects the men were peers. They were both scions of prominent real estate families, and in 2009 Mack and his wife had attended Kushner's wedding, to Ivanka Trump. The two men were also

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    classified information of an attack on an American embassy in a foreign nation. Many late night television hosts often joke that these two candidates are in a race that they should win because their opponent is quite obviously a terrible choice. And yet as Americans debate the the merits of these candidates, many other countries and their politics are disregarded. In a global economy, the ongoings of the world inform American policy and economics. Yet Americans remain ambivalent because other countries

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    Speaker Dinges Summary Gaven D. Crosby • Who – o Miriam Illes, Dr. Illes • What – o Murder • When – o 15 Jan 1995 • Where - o Loyalsock • Why - o Nasty divorce between the Illes family in 1998 SERIES OF EVENTS: • Dr. manufactures homemade silencer for his .22 Hornet rifle that was given to him by family • Dr. Illes comes to take son for weekend • Dr. and son go away and visit family in southern PA • Dr. comes back, son sleeping in car • Dr. walks through ditch and snow to get to his sniping

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    The courtroom, filled with smoke and mirrors, undulates as I rustle my papers. I cough slightly, nudging against the woman next to me, noticing as she brought her white lace handkerchief to her mouth and nose, no doubt wanting to avoid whatever disease or foul humors I appear to have. Murder trials always brought the most unusual crowd of men and women, and a murder such as this, with so much controversy created a stiflingly large crowd. The sick stench of people filled the thickening air as we

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    international students, acclimating to American society can be troublesome and occasionally disappointing. American traditions and qualities may be altogether different from those of your nation of origin, and you may discover them befuddling. America 's populace reflects surprising ethnic differences. Non-white individuals dwarf whites in a lesser expansive urban area. Daily papers regularly utilize such terms as "Asian American," "Italian American," and "Bedouin American" to mirror the ingenuity of different

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    Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies. In this recent study, the authors explore the broad theme of diversity by studying the seventy-four women and people of color in the chief corporate officer position of Fortune 500 Companies. Zweigenhaft and Domhoff (2011) conclude that small diversity within the top of the corporate body does not signify or translate into an open society oriented on equality of opportunity, education, and income. American society is

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    Do Americans Prefer White People to Black People in Business? ThinkProgress reveals a year-long research study that took place on the well-known, online marketplace, Craigslist. In the experiment, old IPods were put up for sale. The IPods were the same in a series of pictures, but the IPod was held by different people. In some of the postings the device was held by white hand, in others by white hands with various tattoos on the wrists, and in others by a black hand. The question that was asked

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    Robert B. Reich, Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer Reich starts his exordium with a distribution of where American workers found themselves in the early 1990’s in reference to where almost all American workers were just 20 years before. Reich placed most of the workers that contributed to the economy during the Nixon administration as being in one boat, analogous to the famous quote by G.K. Chesterton, “We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible

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