Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Osaka, the artist was encouraged to take up painting by his father, a businessman who was also a Sunday painter. Shingu studied oil painting at Tokyo University of Arts, and in 1960 went to Rome's famed Academia di Belle Arti. For months he devotedly copied early-Renaissance masterpieces. Then abruptly he turned abstract, eventually took up mobiles because they can be placed anywhere, indoors...
...Arthur D. Little Inc., a management-consultant firm, and Shiffert claims that such a container is "about a year away." At the very least, the threat of disposables has inspired the diaper-service industry to seek improvement. As Shiffert says: "There is nothing like fear to motivate a businessman...
Hickel's nomination has incensed the nation's conservationists, who instinctively distrust an Interior Secretary with a less than total commitment to preserve what is left of nature in the U.S. Though Hickel is a successful businessman and for the past two years has been a hard-driving and popular Governor of Alaska, he is regarded among conservationists as the archetype of a state that is impatient to tap its latent wealth. There is so much of Alaska for so few Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state...
...domestic affairs, old hard-line diplomats will run the foreign policy, and a slicked-up press operation will carry the old Christian Herter ideology of secrecy one step further. Nixon promised in his campaign to remember the forgotten American. Few people suspected then that he meant the forgotten millionaire businessman Americans...
...share of enthusiasm for left-wing ideals. What it needs are writers and performers who will trust the audience enough to raise the level of the entertainment above the simplistic. Bits about a Russian and American discovering they are the same under the skin or about the middle-aged businessman asking himself "Am I happy? Am I happy?" as he goes through his dehumanizing daily routine are just not clever enough to raise our body heat...