Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate of inflation-say, 7% -indexing actually increases the pressures for a greater rate. The union leader who knows that the price index will rise 7% and that the wages of the workers he represents will go up that much automatically may then bargain for a 10% increase; the businessman who knows that the wages of his workers and the interest he pays on his debts will go up at least 7% may try for a 10% price boost to stay ahead. Thus, if a 7% inflation rate becomes accepted, the real rate may be 9%; if 9% becomes acceptable...
...cubism in the early teens of this century-Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger-the first to die was also the youngest: Gris. His real name was José Gonzálèz, and he was the 13th child of a polyphiloprogenitive Madrid businessman. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906 and installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in the now legendary Bâteau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. He painted nothing of importance until 1910, and uremia killed...
...personal life-style-he has a comfortable apartment on Paris' Rive Gauche, a country home, a passion for modern art-he resembles a successful businessman more than a spokesman for the working class. On television and radio, he has tried to sound moderate and conciliatory. He has recruited modishly dressed young people for his campaign staff and set up a headquarters in a new glass and steel skyscraper -all to make himself appear modern and technocratic...
...Brattle was firmly enough established by 1960 that it was time for Harvey the businessman to expand his holdings in Cambridge. The old University Theater was beginning to decay; Harvey bought it and had it slightly remodelled--the new "two-speed" chairs were installed, reducing the capacity from 1889 to 1689, the premises were cleaned, and prices were raised substantially. Manager Clarence "Bud" Kramer '56 explained the new philosophy (same as the old): "It will be your Hollywood films with some good foreign films spotted...
Nickerson was not born into wealth. His grandfather had been a successful businessman, but was destroyed in the Panic of 1893, and died as a result of it. In his richer days, he had built a castle in Dedham modeled on one he had seen on the Rhine in Germany...