Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ibos in Nigerian history were a relatively insignificant tribe, but their society had achievement-based norms that adopted quickly to Westernization. All over Nigeria they formed a merchant and professional class. An engineer said, "If you are a businessman and you need engineers, you read applications and you don't look at tribes. Fifteen of the twenty men you hire will be Ibos...
...Broadway musicals offer a boon to the tired businessman - sleep...
Demand for Unity's stock was so great that the initial capitalization, set at $1 million by the State Board of Banking Corporation, was raised to $1.2 million and stock requests totaling $44,000 still had to be returned. Guittar recalls one rich white businessman who wanted to purchase $400,000 worth of Unity stock. He was refused because the board of directors had established the policy of scrutinizing all requests over $10,000 and set a $25,000 maximum. "We wanted to avoid any controlling interest," Guittar explained...
...Chicago Businessman Gordon Sherman, now 41, was the joke of the auto-parts industry twelve years ago, when he began hiring white-frocked mechanics to install gold-painted Midas mufflers and act like lofty physicians in "treating" croupy exhaust systems. Now the scoffing has given way to awed silence. Last year Sherman's nationwide chain of 460 Midas muffler (and other parts) shops grossed $42 million. This triumph has freed Sherman to pursue myriad private interests-Talmudic scholarship, oboe playing, rare-bird raising, the culture of orchids-and to cure social ailments as well as autos...
...Vellucci one non-resident businessman says, "He's so popular down here that I think he's going to be canonized when he finally dies--by all seven churches he now regularly attends." There is constant praise for his good works, for his favors to both young and old in the neighborhood, for the vast improvements that he has brought to the area during his regime, for the fact that he is a "real gen'leman" (with the dropped "t" of the local patois). At Don's Lunch the manager-waitress whose books Vellucci carried to the local Thorndike School...