He inherited some income-generating property, but bad investments and failed business ventures resulted in a steady deterioration of the family's financial position.

Cruder forms of accounting were inadequate for the problems created by a business entity involving multiple investors, so double-entry bookkeeping first emerged in northern Italy in the 14th century, where trading ventures began to require more capital than a single individual was able to invest.

Brazil's political, business, and military ventures are complemented by the country's trade policy.

For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

At the same time, Somers ' business ventures began to fail, leaving him deeply in debt.

The most common form of company used for business ventures.

His ambitious business ventures saw him bankrupt by 1692, with a wife and seven children to support.

She also continued to explore new business and entertainment ventures such as her Dollywood theme park, that opened in 1986 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Coppola, with his family, expanded his business ventures to include winemaking in California's Napa Valley, where he purchased the former home and adjoining vineyard of Gustave Niebaum in Rutherford, California.

Washington began to pull himself out of debt in the mid 1760s by diversifying his previously tobacco-centric business interests into other ventures and paying more attention to his affairs.

The early egalitarian communities called " guilds " ( for the gold deposited in their common funds ) were denounced by Catholic clergy for their " conjurations "— the binding oaths sworn among artisans to support one another in adversity and back one another in feuds or in business ventures.

The advent of popular use of the internet caused a boom in fan creations in Glorantha, supported by some unofficial business ventures, such as Reaching Moon Megacorp, and a lively convention scene.

Today's modern HBC has diversified into joint ventures and other types of business products.

Thiers wanted the " middle class accommodated " with the vote, realizing that the petty bourgeoisie ( owners of small business ventures ) supported property interests, in spite of their being ruined by the rise of the larger bourgeoisie.

As their membership declined, they stopped manufacturing operations, other than what they needed for themselves, and began to invest in other ventures such as the oil business, coal mining, timber, railroads, land development, and banking.

The Society's trustee, John S. Duss, settled the lawsuits, liquidated its business ventures, and paid the Society's indebtedness.

After Hugh Macdonald's business ventures left him in debt, the family emigrated to Kingston, in Upper Canada ( today the southern and eastern portions of Ontario ), in 1820, where there were already a number of Macdonald relatives and connections.

Quayle writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.

Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter died almost poor, having seen his business ventures fail while those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., were more successful.

He lent his name to other business ventures, but did not have a great deal of success.

" In which the Hacker Tourist ventures forth across three continents, telling the story of the business and technology of undersea fiber-optic cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth.

Smith served as host of the television show This Week in Baseball from 1997 to 1999, and continues to be an entrepreneur in a variety of business ventures.

Smith has also been an entrepreneur in a variety of business ventures.

First, as an outcome of globalization and the proliferation of multinational companies, joint ventures, strategic alliances and business partnerships, significant success factors were identified, complementing the earlier " Just-In-Time ", Lean Manufacturing and Agile manufacturing practices.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

The Clintons ' personal and business affairs during the 1980s included transactions that became the basis of the Whitewater investigation that dogged his later presidential administration.

An hourly business update is included during the weekday schedule from the BBC Business Unit.

These included personal journeys, journeys related solely with his second job as a solicitor, and Conservative Party business, for example travel to Conservative conferences.

The add-on was unofficial but was included in an official compilation called Duke Nukem: Kill-A-Ton Collection through business deals with 3D Realms.

His business dealings included successful farming operations, one of Connecticut's early iron works, and land speculation in the Vermont territory.

They were an extremely heterogeneous lot that included liberal intellectuals, conservative clergymen, and representatives from Guayaquil's successful business community.

The book provided an overview of the history, culture, and business of the sports and included interviews with athletes, company owners, and marketers.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

Popular and pioneering film makers included the Bamforths in Yorkshire, William Haggar and his family business in Wales and Frank Mottershaw whose film, A Daring Daylight Robbery, started the chase genre.

Others who responded negatively to Hayek's work on the business cycle included John Hicks, Frank Knight, and Gunnar Myrdal.

* Disposals of bulk chemicals businesses at that time included the sale of its Australian subsidiary, ICI Australia, for £ 1bn in 1997, and of its polyester chemicals business to DuPont for $ 3 billion also in 1997.

Brabham retired to Australia after the 1970 Formula One season, where he bought a farm and maintained various business interests, which included the Engine Developments racing engine manufacturer and several garages.

Al-Fayed's major business purchases have included:

Incentives for business were related mostly to import-duty exemptions, but they included a variety of tax breaks and placed no restrictions on foreign ownership.

The Copying Department comprised shorthand, typing and copying services, and included secretaries for the Registrar and judges, emergency reporters capable of taking notes down verbatim and copyists ; the smallest of the departments, it comprised between 12 and 40 staff depending on the business of the Court.

Marketing and support of the JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet is also included in the Aeronautics business area.

The firms operations included smuggling opium into China from Malwa, India, trading spices and sugar with the Philippines, exporting Chinese tea and silk to England, factoring and insuring cargo, renting out dockyard facilities and warehouse space, trade financing and other numerous lines of business and trade.

The trading concerns of Jardine's included smuggling opium into China from India, trading spices and sugar from the Philippines, importing Chinese tea and silk into England, handling cargo papers and cargo insurance, renting of dockyard facilities and warehouse space, trade financing and other numerous lines of business and trade.

A grass-skirted hula dancer from the pilot episode was also included, played by Helen Kuoha-Torco, who later became a professor of business technology at Windward Community College.

Chirac's internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price controls, strong punishment for crime and terrorism, and business privatisation.

The biggest difference was that the novel included a more upbeat ending than the film, in which Kay Corleone accepts Michael's decision to take over his father's business.

Sometimes such a feature ( for example, the ability to change the switch character in MS-DOS, usually to a hyphen ) is included for compatibility ( in this case with Unix utilities ) or future-expansion reasons, but the software provider changes their mind or goes out of business ; the absence of documentation makes it easier to justify the feature's removal.

GEC's major defence related acquisitions included Associated Electrical Industries in 1967, English Electric Company ( including its Marconi subsidiary ) in 1968, Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1985, parts of Ferranti's defence business in 1990, Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1995 and Kvaerner Govan in 1999.