It is also suggested that macro-level thermodynamic indicators should be based on the thermodynamic first law efficiency and the energy quality problem may be left to enterprise-level thermoeconomic optimization.
Re "Failure Reveals Creaky System, Experts Believe" (front page, Aug. 15): Once again, we see that maintaining and operating vital aspects of the infrastructure cannot be left to private enterprise.
Delivery would be left to social enterprises, co-operatives, community groups, local businesses, public sector partners, joint ventures with private sector partners and other models.
The point here is that, if it were left to private sector enterprise, we would never have seen a human foot touch down on the moon's surface.
Secondary education was still left to voluntary and private enterprise.
After time spent at Microsoft working on Internet Explorer among other things, he left to start his own enterprise software company, DataPower, which was eventually sold to IBM, where he stayed on for 2.5 years integrating and developing the business, before leaving to start a new company, online privacy company Abine, where he remains as chairman.
Robert Sillerman, chief executive of rights management firm CKX, did just that last year when he paid about $100 million in cash and stock for an 85% stake in Elvis Presley Enterprises left to daughter Lisa Marie Presley that includes publishing rights to some 650 songs.
The distance keeps Mr. Assange safe from the prying eyes of the press, give or take my visit, but it also means that someone who has remained in motion for many years is now fixed in place, left to operate a shadowy global enterprise from a country farm north of London.
First Boston was too valuable an enterprise to be left to a bunch of gunslingers.
The current orthodoxy is that small state-owned enterprises can be left to go their own way, but that the biggest ones must still be nurtured under the state's wing.
Successful tech firms spawn start-ups, either by example or because staff leave to form other enterprises.
