The industry must have believed Quackenbush's assurances that he was a free enterprise man who would not exploit the potential of office for demagoguery.
The nationalisation of the AESC was the most prominent manifestation of Playford's economic pragmatism; although ideologically a free enterprise man like his colleagues, he saw ideology as secondary if it got in the way of his objectives.
The visitors may have been more adventurous thereafter, but it was the enterprise of men on the edge of defeat.
Like the golfers, most of the older drivers employed by Enterprise are men, but now mature women are taking their place in the driver's seat.
From that, he cycled through several other enterprises, mostly men's sportswear, under the Wear This, Base and Foreign Exchange labels.
Were there no free enterprise, a man of Jobs' mesmerizing talents might start a crank religion or bloody revolution.
The prosecution told jurors that Chow was a clever gang boss who controlled a violent criminal enterprise, a man so cold he laughed when he heard that a rival he is charged with conspiring to kill was dead.
His heroes -- thickish, lumpen, their bodies cast forward against the perpetually adversarial universe -- are small-time businessmen or artists in doomed enterprises: a man who wants to carbonate Lake Erie, a "radiator musician" who performs steam lullabies on apartment radiators and whose career is shattered when a warm spell causes the boiler to be turned off.
Whale hunting was a cooperative enterprise involving many men, who risked their lives in flimsy bark canoes.
Nonetheless, the historian complains, "everyone alike fell in love with the enterprise: the old men upon hope to subdue the place they went to or that at least so great a power could not miscarry; and the young men upon desire to see a foreign country and to gaze, making little doubt but to return with safety".
It had to account for the "spirit of enterprise" that helped men make themselves.
