Search results for "Enterprising" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Ward's catalog soon was copied by other enterprising merchants, most notably Richard W. Sears, who mailed his first general catalog in 1896 ...
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  • The enterprising brothers screened a well-used copy of The Great Train Robbery throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania before seizing the chance to ...
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  • married James Joseph “J. J.” Brown, an enterprising, self-educated man, in 1886. Margaret had always planned on marrying a rich man but she married ...
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  • It has remained for one of the most enterprising collectors and naturalists of our time, Mr Carl Hagenbeck, not only to breed, but to bring successfully ...
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  • Elamite text. He was then able to find an enterprising local boy to climb up a crack in the cliff and rig ropes across the Babylonian writing, so that ...
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  • large farms, free citizens, and enterprising merchants. This new system was to last throughout the centuries. The priests, who had previously ...
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  • at the time and was not a judge, but was an enterprising pioneer who launched the Barn Dance as a spin-off similarly-named radio show out of WLS Radio ...
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  • was the French influence, at the urging of the enterprising French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix, at the court of the Nawab. This was resulting ...
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  • boosted his reputation as a skillful and enterprising soldier. Many years later, the government commissioned a statue in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park ...
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  • is now Lebanon. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the first millennium ...
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  • arts are far less expensive. Enterprising people make their own kimono and undergarments since they follow a standard pattern, or they recycle ...
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  • in disseminating Buddhist doctrine, this enterprising monk is also credited with establishing the Mahavihara Monastery of Anuradhapura—a structure ...
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  • pious, zealous, faithful Catholic, the enterprising navigator, and the large-hearted and generous sailor: Christopher Columbus." ...
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  • * Enterprising - competitive environments, leadership, persuading * Conventional - detail-oriented, organizing, clerical This model is widely ...
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  • Since Ganesha was widely worshipped by these enterprising travelers, he became one of the most prevalent Hindu deities in foreign lands. ...
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  • because many of the refugees were skilled, enterprising, and adaptable, they contributed to West Germany's economic recovery. ...
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  • Trading into the East Indies by a coterie of enterprising and influential businessmen, who obtained the Crown's charter for exclusive permission ...
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  • people to become responsible, thoughtful and enterprising citizens. This is an intricate, challenging task requiring deep understanding of ethical principles ...
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  • ” and described them as an exceptionally enterprising people. Louis Kraar,. [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/10/12/69646/index ...
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  • capital, the natural outlet for the more enterprising members of these sects would be to seek new opportunities in the technologies created in the wake ...
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