Pittsburgh, minus the steel giants, must continually add small, vigorous enterprises to sustain prosperity, and the momentum is fading.
Indeed, protecting novels from all threats, real and imagined, seems at times to constitute a more vigorous cultural enterprise than the actual writing of the things.
Dave Jordano shoots signs of decline — the site of the old Hudson's department store — for instance, but also documents vigorous small enterprise in "Mike With Chevy Monte Carlo Donkk' With 28 Inch Wheels, Conant Street, Northeast Side".
In that period Dutch merchant ships sailed the world and helped lay the foundations of a great trading country characterized by a vigorous spirit of enterprise.
A vigorous proponent of private enterprise and free trade, he signed trade treaties with England (1860), Belgium (1861), and Italy (1863).
He delighted in fielding questions from students, whom he often addressed, the subject typically a vigorous promotion of the free-enterprise system.
The books describe Zhejiang's vigorous efforts to develop party cells in private enterprises and recruit private-business owners (19,682 of them were members by the end of 2005).
Enterprise Gang's Denis Pombriant joins the Keith Gang for a vigorous rubdown of fake views and Comey's smackdown of the Obstructor in Chief.
It is only regrettable that the critical enterprise they promote is the remainder of a more vigorous, once bolder form of engagement.
