Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Virginia Graham Tchivi-djian, 18, daughter of Evangelist Billy; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, Armenian-descended businessman son of a financier who is Billy's strongest supporter in Switzerland: their first child, a son (and first grandchild for the 45-year-old Graham, who sailed to London last week to organize another spiritual crusade next year in Britain); in Asheville...
...excoriated the state legislators in a TV interview, they passed a special law so that they could fire him. They did-but Maremont, undeterred, last week sandwiched speeches and interviews on birth control in among visits to his far-flung plants. Says he: "My role as a businessman is only one aspect of my total being...
...bucket in this case is worn by Conrad Castiletz, an upper-middle-class Viennese businessman whose ordered life is shattered by the death of a woman he has never met. After a lonely, long-drawn adolescence, Conrad becomes an exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever...
...over. A change of government could disrupt the whole military program. Disaffected Liberals have joined in a leftist opposition movement that will test the Frente Nacional's strength in congressional elections next week. But for the first time in years, the atmosphere is hopeful. Pablo Samper, a Bogota businessman, actually took his wife with him on a recent visit to his 5,000-acre finca in northern Tolima department. "I used to spend the weekends there with my family," he says. "Maybe the time will come again...
...Business in Brazil has been turned into a dangerous and complicated gamble by runaway inflation, which has been accelerated by reckless government spending, constant labor demands for more money, and restrictive laws that force foreign companies to plow back their profits into the Brazilian economy. Between the time a businessman bids for an order and delivers the goods, he does not know how much the cost of the materials will rise, how high the workers' wages will climb, how much his financing charges will increase, or even if his customer will be able to pay for the order...