She turned it into a conglomerate called Bense Holding Group based in Zhejiang, which prides itself on up-by-the-bootstraps entrepreneurship.
None of the possible contenders, though, can claim the pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, Greatest Generation personal story that shaped Frank Lautenberg's years of public service.
There is something terrifically old-fashioned about Stefano Bemer--the by-the-bootstraps career path, the cool dedication, the modesty that comes with mastery.
But "to this day, 'Thatcherism' is used all over the world to describe a brisk, unsentimental, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps approach, " he writes.
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It's that of a gutsy, up-by-her-bootstraps heroine--daughter of a Las Vegas showgirl and a show-promoter father who died when Dunn was 12.
But the earlier refrain of by-the-bootstraps money-making has taken a somber turn.
In the case of Ford, however, investors enamored by its up-by-the-bootstraps survival in 2009 and 2010 are beginning to notice some of the warts.
He bootstraps Tartufi with its own profits and commissions from PAQ.
But reaching that goal isn't easy for Chinese entrepreneurs who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and have little feel for the tastes and demands of consumers outside China.
Vice President Dick Cheney, after accepting his party's renomination, gave a nod to the pulling-up-by-the-bootstraps topic when he mentioned that his grandparents had lived in a railroad car.
This is a woman that has a very strong spine, has a very good heart, and has had a life that she has worked herself up by her own bootstraps.
He pulled out all the stops starting after Lehman Brothers sent the market into a tizzy to pull this country up by its bootstraps and almost will it not to fail.
An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
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