The small-time entrepreneurs of Scar were taking full advantage of the boredom attending late summer.

But they are not purchased by the hundreds or thousands, but by small-time entrepreneurs who may do 10 or 15 at a time.

Or, to put it another way, of the small-time entrepreneur who didn't realize that he couldn't.

Throughout the 1980s, Ozal privatized state companies, liberalized banking, allowed for free and floating exchange rates, and used the bully pulpit to champion the small-time entrepreneur.

In the last 20 years, Mr. Sudano said, Skyy Vodka is the only hard alcohol introduced by small-time entrepreneurs that was successful over time.

A true hero when we read about him in the newspapers, on the opera stage he shrinks to an ebullient small-time entrepreneur with political guts.

Many experts tired of poor management are calling for less reliance on inefficient state-owned industrial behemoths and more reliance on a long-repressed class: small-time entrepreneurs.

Those calls came from a growing circle of towns, from families and small-time entrepreneurs with problems that were novel enough to stump their local lawyers.

Many major technological breakthroughs were made by small-time entrepreneurs with an ingenious streak.