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In Detroit, the very success of the Big Three squeezed out the kinds of self-starting entrepreneurs that New York had in scores.

Detroit's Decline and The Folly of Light Rail

Coro's intense, community-based selection process identifies bright, high-achieving, self-starting individuals with the greatest potential for learning and growth.

Liz Neumark: Can You Feel the Love?

It strengthens their innate feeling that there is a very direct relationship between how young children develop, and how they build confidence as adolescents to become more self-starting, responsible and collaborative members of society.

John Abbott: We're Born to Learn, Not to Be Taught

Under capitalism without capital, we should encourage people to be self-educating and self-starting, not state-parented.

Capitalism without Capital, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Instead, according to court papers and internal emails from the Times read at the inquiry, the paper suggested to the court that the blogger's identity had been obtained via a "self-starting journalistic endeavor" that was largely based on deduction from public sources.

Times of London Misled Court on Email Incident

Is it to Corporate America's and the economy's benefit to find ways to leverage this self-starting and team-oriented generation?

Christina Vuleta: Millennials: Starting Up Or Starting Over In The Face Of Recessionary Pay Gaps

I think the disparity lies in the idea of self-starting vs. start-up.

Christina Vuleta: Millennials: Starting Up Or Starting Over In The Face Of Recessionary Pay Gaps

And Suri outlined the importance of self-starting militants taking the jihad into their own hands: “If a man living in Sweden spots a Jewish security target, he should attack it.”

The Longest War

The more complex and deadly the attack, the more likely it was to be organized not by a group of ad hoc “self-starting” jihadists but by an organization with cadre trained in bomb making and other pertinent skills such as countersurveillance.

The Longest War

But in the case of the Sageman-Hoffman spat the stakes were enormously high; if indeed Sageman was correct that the West was threatened largely by “self-starting” home-grown militants, then why spend hundreds of billions of dollars in a “Global War on Terror” in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, where al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups were headquartered?

The Longest War