Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literally salvaged from a trash can as a newborn, and was adopted and raised by a Jewish father and a black mother. A high-pressure businessman since the age of 15, he ran a successful real estate firm, won election to the state legislature, crammed his way through law school and passed...
...array of officers holding top government positions in Greece--Ioannides, Androutsopoulos, Gizikis--were all trained in the U.S. Tom Pappas of Boston, a Greek-American businessman, was instrumental in assuring Androutsopoulos his position as the new premier. Pappas is the largest single investor in Greek enterprise, and controls a bloc of industry with a clout like ITT's in the States. During an interview with the Greek newspaper Apogevmatini in 1968, he was asked whether it was true that he belonged to the CIA. His blunt reply reads, "Of course it is. And I am very proud...
Powder Keg. As a result of the price runup, played-out mines are coming back to life. A young Johannesburg businessman named Desmond Fisher has bought a mine that has not been active for 13 years, and intends to bring it back into production by year's end at a cost of $1 million. At one Transvaal mine closed for a decade, 25 kilograms of gold worth about $145,000 at present prices have been produced in the past two months solely by reworking old tailings. The Grootvlei mine, which appeared to be near the end of its productive...
...have difficulties, including even the French, despite Bokassa's often proclaimed Francophilism and France's $5 million a year in budgetary aid. There have been five French ambassadors in Bokassa's eight-year tenure. "They all run afoul of Bokassa sooner or later," explained one French businessman...
...lamps or the moon. The inhabitants are nudes (generally blonde Walloon girls with an air of mild bovine derangement) who wander about, sleep, vaguely study themselves in hand mirrors, and are met by bourgeois gentlemen in dark suits and bowlers. Sometimes, as in The Encounter, the businessman has Delvaux's own face. Though Delvaux has turned out countless variations of somnambulists in empty piazzas, only a few of his works -like the enormous Spitzner Museum, 1943-echo in the mind for long...