Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to choose his own Prime Minister, Goulart made full use of it. "I and nobody else will choose the Prime Minister," he told congressional leaders, and proceeded to haggle until they finally agreed on a man acceptable to both sides. The choice: Tancredo Neves, 51, a conservative businessman from Minas Gerais, who was Justice Minister under President Getúlio Vargas in 1954 and was now serving a quiet term as a federal Deputy. Politically, he had the value of belonging to ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.), which holds the largest block of seats...
...slum girl, Consuelo got a good education: grammar school and trade school, where she learned to type. She went to work for a businessman, lost her job when she refused to let him make love to her. Despite her revulsion of sex, Consuelo finally let herself be seduced. "Caray," she says. "So many things have happened to me since then. What can I do to stop punishing myself? Was it bad luck or bad faith that was my undoing. Not a day goes by when I do not have some filthy proposition, nor a powerful reason to accept...
...France, Mohammed ben Abdallah Cherkaoui, 40; shy Fatima Zorah picked Prince Moulay Ali el Alaoui, 38, a first cousin and the royal family's shrewdest business brain. Princess Aisha's choice: El Hassan ben Abdelaziz al Yakoubi, 27 (Aisha is 31), a handsome gentleman farmer whose wealthy businessman father is an old friend of the royal family...
...estimates that there are 6,000,000 compulsive gamblers in this country who drop $20 billion a year. At weekly meetings, stories like Fred's are heard every week (as in A.A., members are referred to only by their first names). An hour before his wedding. Businessman Danny fled a raided crap game, scrambled over a barbed-wire fence, tore his wedding clothes, and gashed his hands; he finally made the church in borrowed clothes and with bandages decorating both hands up to his wrists. Joe, a former minor-league baseball player, kited $100,000 worth of bad checks...
...accentuated" by any expansion in the Common Market. Not only will U.S. entrepreneurs feel a growing need to slip under Europe's tariff curtain, but they will find it easier to do. Instead of having to set up plants in each of two rival camps, a U.S. businessman will be able to sell to the continental Six from a subsidiary in Britain, and vice versa. Since the Common Market got going three years ago, U.S. business has started more than 600 new operations within the Six, v. 120 in Britain. Now the emphasis is likely to swing back...