Word: benjamin
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...William and James, is one of three Buckley business associates cited in the complaint. John has devoted his career to carrying on the enterprises that grew out of the lucrative Venezuelan oil ventures of the family patriarch, William Sr., who died in 1958. Also cited by the SEC were Benjamin Heath, 67, widower of one of the elder Buckley's daughters, and C. Dean Reasoner, a Washington lawyer who had long helped manage the Buckley businesses...
...Michael Demarest. Reported by Benjamin W. Cate/Los Angeles
...problem of guests avoiding the transient fees is one which is the "responsibility of the Harvard student, who essentially is taking food" for a friend, Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of food services, said...
...four business leaders were COSEP Directors Enrique Dreyfus, Benjamin Lanzas, Gilberto Cuadra and Enrique Bolanos. All had strongly supported the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. They had also advocated a mixed economy of socialism and free enterprise to rebuild Nicaragua's war-torn economy. But from the beginning, according to a Sandinista document, the government had planned to give the capitalists free rein only until it was able to take over the economy. COSEP members saw their control whittled away by nationalizations of banks, some industry and agricultural holdings. The economy became dependent upon an estimated $450 million...
With the capture of Washington-he was, poor chap, taken to London and hanged as a traitor-the rebellion collapsed, and no one else had the stature or the stomach to start it up again. That ancient rogue Benjamin Franklin, who had persuaded King Louis XVI to bankrupt his treasury in the rebel cause, was content to remain in Paris, for instance, chasing young ladies and flying kites in thunderstorms. Thomas Jefferson, the greatest propagandist of the age, also sought refuge in Europe, where he lived with his beautiful black mistress and continued his mischief-making for another 43 years...