"Mark has invested it in an interesting variety of more and less speculative enterprises," Tante Cordelia went on kindly.

Risk-takers and innovators in underdeveloped economies tend to be found either in highly speculative enterprises such as property development and money lending or in the liberal professions, the traditional home of the unproductive intermediaries.

Skyrocketing prices for everything, which encouraged investment in highly speculative enterprises such as the Northern Pacific.

But father had a failing in that he took great interest in speculative enterprises.

Fancy it, the three of us engaged upon a speculative enterprise.

He is a man who has sustained losses - almost always through speculative enterprises - but he has a way of pyramiding to make good what he has lost.

I have no great interest in speculative enterprises.

But they are far from speculative enterprises.

In addition, in connection with other interests, it was instrumental in the financing of the Kamerun Railroad Company and the Great Venezuela Railway, both speculative enterprises, and the latter eventually of great financial annoyance.

But they have not concluded that it is a useless and mistaken speculative enterprise to consider what it means to say that something 'exists'.