He said he had toyed with everything from asking his landlords for a rent reprieve to pumping up his delivery business, screening movie musicals and moving into wholesaling vegetarian chili.
Stanley Green cited the The Great Ziegfeld as "the first of a number of elaborate show-business screen biographies".
Don Moore, an associate professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, recommends businesses screen candidates for "identifiable skills" and "job-relevant abilities" in order to identify the best potential hires and make decisions based on something better than gut instinct.
These businesses screen and run back-ground checks on their sitters.
"They take a look at a business-application screen and they scream in horror," he says.
London's gentlemen's clubs, America's country clubs, nightclubs and other private businesses often screen their members.
The Illinois state public health laboratories were already swamped by the pressures of routine business, including screening newborns or testing for tuberculosis, for example.
Mr. Furtado said he used to live in Connecticut and traveled through Bradley a lot on business, when screening was cursory at best, but he doesn't yearn for those simpler inspections.
Show business: Three screens, showing mostly upscale arthouse fare (recent offerings have included Sarah's Key, Arrietty and Beautiful Lies) along with mainstream crossover hits (Harry Potter, Bridesmaids) and the odd surprise (Island, Treacle Jr, The Referees).
Started as 3 different businesses – Lovefilm, Screen Select and Video Island – all with the same idea.
