The concerto probably satisfied an entrepreneurial impulse to sell tickets - offering a familiar piano vehicle played here by a rising young international star, Zoltan Kocsis.

But in Eastern Europe, where markets are just beginning to flourish, the entrepreneurial impulse is to get rich quick, even at the expense of customer loyalty.

But some see big employers becoming a little too enveloping, especially for those with entrepreneurial impulses.

Another similarity to Jackson's life is the entrepreneurial impulse of Stringer Bell, the number-two in Barksdale's organization.

Managers fear greater responsibility and lack the entrepreneurial impulse.

"That looks like something to color," a co-worker remarked, igniting Ms. Gilbert's entrepreneurial impulses.

But even while teaching, he had an entrepreneurial impulse.

Little wonder, then, that the more alert of this country's largest companies encourage the entrepreneurial impulses of their employees.

It was born in 1984 from un-Communist entrepreneurial impulses among a group of Chinese computer scientists who wanted to start their own company.

"It's a new version of the old entrepreneurial impulse that Ronald Reagan says made this country great."