noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an enterprise zone (= where businesses are encouraged )
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Small businesses predominated in the enterprise zone.
enterprise culture
enterprise zone
free enterprise
private enterprise
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
capitalist
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Liberal-democracy is found only in countries whose economic system is wholly or predominantly that of capitalist enterprise .
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Spectator sport may have been partially commercialized but it never became a capitalist leisure enterprise .
commercial
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It should be noted, too, that most of the experimental schemes have not included commercial enterprises .
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Newspapers and magazines sell space, which is not without its limitations for a commercial enterprise .
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A board was nominated to run each industry as a viable commercial enterprise .
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Few people notice or perhaps care when such inspections are directed at commercial enterprises .
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A commercial enterprise of national value to our successors will have been severely damaged.
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Its purpose, they claimed, was to preserve the area from vandalism and commercial enterprise !
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But this tale of commercial enterprise by academics has, ironically, rebounded on them.
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This is not an entirely commercial enterprise , of course; it is also about people wanting to see one's work.
free
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It's only free enterprise , after all.
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But what began as an enlightened innovation has become an albatross around the neck of the free enterprise system.
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Ultimately it was only by becoming respectable that the movie industry would continue to survive as a free entrepreneurial enterprise .
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It was a celebration of freedom, free spirits and free enterprise .
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It shows free enterprise Toryism at its best.
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Then suddenly free enterprise had entered their lives.
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All this is being done in the name of free enterprise .
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Some free enterprises argue that if the highway is built with private funds, there should be no government regulation.
individual
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Profit and loss from war was not necessarily always a matter of individual enterprise .
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Although they enjoyed their lifestyle there was evidence that very long hours were worked, greater than the individual enterprises actually required.
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Similar observations can be made in relation to the development of management strategies in industrial relations at the level of the individual enterprise .
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It may seem too much like confinement, a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity.
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Though there was undoubtedly comradeship, there was also the danger and loneliness of individual enterprise .
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From this viewpoint any highly segmented representation of worker interests in relation to employers, such as via individual enterprise bargaining, had little appeal.
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But economic reform is passing power from central government to the provinces, and from repressive institutions to individual enterprises .
industrial
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Whether versions of destruction are to take place within or without the industrial enterprise , the political implications are obvious.
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The quantity of operational information in the industrial assurance enterprise was vast.
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The main internal relations they are concerned with are those which generate waves of innovation by industrial enterprises .
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Loans and extension services have to be run in support of private commercial, industrial and agricultural enterprise .
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They are: first, the growth of giant industrial enterprises and the concentration of economic power in fewer of them.
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We could decentralise the building industries as well, and all small-sized industrial enterprises .
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The town had suffered from the worst of industrial enterprise and was now the recipient of a major twenty-million-pound clean-up.
joint
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They feel that they can band together with others in a kind of joint enterprise to beat the disease.
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Nor do all who participate in a joint enterprise agree to its occurrence.
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The lawyer said the defendants were all involved in a joint enterprise to plant a booby-trap device under the car.
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The maintenance of territorial integrity has become a joint enterprise .
large
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The city's economy is heavily weighted towards large manufacturing enterprises , most of which were established to supply the Soviet military.
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When they could, the inter-est rates were far higher than those for large enterprises .
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Many of the large military enterprises which formed the backbone of the city's economy have suffered serious reductions in income.
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Large hotel and catering organizations, as well as breweries and other large enterprises , fall into the category of public limited companies.
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We have been particularly concerned in this study with the large to very large enterprise .
local
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A specific objective is that this new body will work directly with the local enterprise companies.
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As a model of local enterprise , Vee-Jay had the most promise-and the most spectacular fall.
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The camp has established an innovative partnership with a local village tourism enterprise .
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We will set up and fund new regional development and local enterprise agencies.
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Industrial economics Local enterprise agencies offer free advice and counselling to people who own or are considering setting up a small business.
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Today I checked the position in every local enterprise company.
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The research will assess the management and effectiveness of one local enterprise agency based in Colchester, Essex.
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They fear that ministers intend to downgrade their economic role and enhance the powers of local enterprise companies.
new
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The course is not just about starting a new enterprise , it's also about raising the standard of enterprises that already exist.
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This entailed a responsibility to stimulate the growth and development of new economic enterprises .
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Officials promised them work in new enterprises that would make the most of their skills.
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Furthermore, former Communist bureaucrats, transformed into free market operators, are in many cases already running the new privatized enterprises .
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It was supposed that the critical role of knowledge work in this new style enterprise would necessitate the restructuring of administrative systems.
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He was the backbone of a new and fragile enterprise , they said.
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Some new enterprises have been created, infrastructural investment pursued and inner-city housing boosted.
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In developing countries generally, nearly a fifth of small new enterprises were begun by women.
other
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New business Public relations consultancies no more want to stand still than any other business enterprise .
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Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers.
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Large hotel and catering organizations, as well as breweries and other large enterprises , fall into the category of public limited companies.
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The main problem in economic terms is that net farm incomes are substantially lower than for other farm enterprises and types.
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Organizations are seen to be not unlike armies engaged in battle with the armies of other enterprises .
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At the industrial level, pharmaceutical and other biomedical enterprises do all they can to promote their products.
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Zuwaya made similar contracts for other kinds of enterprise - - shops, garages or farms.
private
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Where private enterprise has stepped in, the results have been variable.
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He advocated experiments with private enterprise in the coal industry.
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You hear the same sort of thing from people who worked with Bush in private enterprise .
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After 1475, however, Gloucester made no further acquisitions, either through royal grants or private enterprise .
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In a slip of time, the mantle of achievement passed from private enterprise to public works.
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Second, the prosperity and even the survival of many private enterprises depends largely on the workings of the social services.
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He has announced that private enterprise will be allowed to flourish.
public
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It was the difference between a vast public enterprise , and a local farmer making a living as economically as he could.
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The private sector often complains about public enterprise , arguing that government should not compete with business.
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This study will take a different approach to identifying the peculiarities of public enterprise industrial relations.
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The minister of public enterprises has ordered that 50 percent of all accounting for state-owned companies be placed with black firms.
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As a result of the government's programme, the weight of the public enterprise sector was significantly curtailed.
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The government also pursued policies designed to encourage a commercial ethos in the remaining public enterprises .
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But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic.
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Government intention does not transform itself into public enterprise action in a mechanical and straight forward way.
small
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Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded.
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It sounds hauntingly like the machine shop I visited, and hundreds of thousands of other small enterprises in this coun-try.
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In the first instance the government was aiming to foster a private sector in small and medium-sized enterprises .
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There are tens of thousands of successful entrepreneurs who have built much smaller enterprises .
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Many were also now operating smaller enterprises than before the move to Cornwall.
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One of those smaller enterprises was started several years ago in a very unusual way.
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However, the new company will be a far smaller enterprise than its 60-year old predecessor.
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In developing countries generally, nearly a fifth of small new enterprises were begun by women.
whole
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There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped.
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The main benefits of the whole enterprise seem to have been Teflon, Tang, and a stack of very cool photographs.
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However, if you hate exercise, be assured that the whole enterprise is not necessarily doomed to failure.
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One person said just holding the single chip and waiting to eat it had made him very nervous about the whole enterprise .
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There may be something mildly transgressive in the whole enterprise .
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The fear that the whole enterprise was at risk from the blunders of some one outside the charmed circle.
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The whole enterprise was ill-founded from the start.
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That's one reason why the whole enterprise was abandoned in 1926.
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business
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There is £1.5 million for the business enterprise scheme.
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This system has worked well for some of our most successful business enterprises , particularly in the technological and medical industries.
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Instead, they would reinvest it in their business enterprises , which would then flourish even more.
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Nissan is not the first business enterprise to have its name attached to the tournament.
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He was hostile to the joint-stock company as a medium through which to carry on business enterprise .
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Another measure that could boost employment is the encouragement of small-scale business enterprises .
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New business Public relations consultancies no more want to stand still than any other business enterprise .
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But we would stress that broadcasting is not just another business enterprise .
company
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A specific objective is that this new body will work directly with the local enterprise companies .
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Today I checked the position in every local enterprise company .
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They fear that ministers intend to downgrade their economic role and enhance the powers of local enterprise companies .
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Since then, the Government has created the local enterprise companies , many of which have become involved in internationalisation programmes.
council
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The hon. Gentleman obviously does not think that training and enterprise councils should be supported.
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The truth is that the youth training guarantee is not being delivered by Devon training and enterprise council .
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He left, but says the enterprise council is to blame: He says he feels he's been badly treated.
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The full network of 82 training and enterprise councils has been operational since last October.
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Part of the progress that has been made in our area has been the establishment of the Shropshire training and enterprise council .
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Mr. Jackson Management of youth training in Eccles is the responsibility of the Manchester training and enterprise council .
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The moves include loans for training and a scheme involving enterprise councils and local firms.
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Secondly, along with the development of the training and enterprise councils , Britain's sectors should be given a key strategic role.
culture
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He is the author of numerous books and pamphlets on capitalism, industry and the enterprise culture .
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The culture of dependency has to be replaced by the enterprise culture.
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The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture as important contributions to workforce flexibility, and the restructuring process.
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But there was no such enterprise culture in Britain in those days.
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The enterprise culture was born and the number of new paper millionaires mushroomed from around 5,000 to 18,000.
state
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Second, the state will continue to prop up inefficient state enterprises .
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After spending 17 years in Congress hurling broadsides at foreign creditors and defending state enterprises , Mr Franco has changed course.
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Under the program, the government sold shares to citizens for a nominal fee to quickly transform state enterprises into private companies.
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More recently, governments have imposed financial constraints limiting the call of state enterprises on public funds.
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In 1991 Soglo instituted an austerity program and privatized many state enterprises , a trend continued by Kerekou.
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Support for loss-making state enterprises had also been a drain on the budget, with over 50,000 million yuan spent on subsidies.
zone
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Between 1981-2 and 1985-6, total public costs associated with enterprise zones amounted to a gross figure of almost £400 million.
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An important debate surrounding the concept of enterprise zones has been the question of displacement.
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We have only their failed policies and an enterprise zone in Inverclyde.
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First, the rhetoric of deregulation has not matched the reality: enterprise zones and Freeports have largely proved mundane.
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On the other hand, a substantial minority considered that infrastructural investment was a significant factor for location within an enterprise zone .
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In recent years, property within enterprise zones has also enjoyed relief.
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Firms within enterprise zones would not pay rates for ten years, local government being reimbursed for lost revenue by the Treasury.
■ VERB
create
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With this resource behind us there must be scope for creating a successful enterprise .
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Rindge also creates student-run enterprises that are tied directly in to its academic program.
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Building Skills Delivering economic development means creating an environment of enterprise and capability within which success can bloom.
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It is the government's responsibility to create the conditions for enterprise to thrive.
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It creates enterprises and revenue generating operations.
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Statutory rights to management control have been created for workers and enterprises have been given autonomy to plan production.
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He also expects to ask the Legislature to allow the county to create a sports enterprise zone near the Astrodome.
run
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Finally, they could contribute to the farm income by running their own tourist enterprise .
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Furthermore, former Communist bureaucrats, transformed into free market operators, are in many cases already running the new privatized enterprises .
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Bland converted and although Horden ran with great enterprise they could not close the gap.
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Some are even running for-profit enterprises .
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These should be run by private enterprise .
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His experience of the committee-managed Union convinced him that personal guidance was the safest way to run any enterprise .
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There is some justification for treating those who run these enterprises as capitalists if they manifest certain characteristics.
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Anne was one of 18 women running successful small enterprises with stands in the Women in the Rural Community exhibition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He is the CEO of a multimillion-dollar enterprise .
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She's a woman of great enterprise and creativity.
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The U.S. and Russia are working together on a new scientific enterprise .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And shaky enterprises have always wanted to borrow money.
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He was an outstanding veterinary surgeon, and obviously a man of enormous enterprise , daring courage and strong will.
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In that regard free enterprise has proven the most compassionate system in the history of the world.
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The best solution was found to differ from area to area and enterprise to enterprise.
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The government was to issue vouchers to every citizen to enable them to buy shares in factories and enterprises.
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The main characteristics of capitalism are private ownership of capital and freedom of enterprise .
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This enterprise has so far fallen far short of its targets, but it remains a high priority.