Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time has not lessened Agnew's bitterness toward the press or the Justice Department or the business cronies who squealed; he has privately complimented one businessman pal for not "breaking...
...flashbacks, Simon plans an elaborate scheme to burgle the Riviera branch of Van Cleef & Arpels; Frangoise, an antique dealer, thinks him a businessman but suspects otherwise. Her suspicions, and her attraction to Simon's unpretentiousness, prove seductive. When he is caught in the back room of Van Cleef s, Frangoise pledges to wait for him. It is a familiar enough situation, but it is given novelty by Frangoise's ambition "to live like a man"−to enjoy the freedoms generally granted only to the male sex. What gives La Bonne Annee much of its real grace...
Since 1964, Brazil has been the businessman's example of the ideal developing economy. The country's GNP has had an annual average increase of 9.5 per cent. Exports reached $4 billion last year with one fourth to one-third of that in manufactured goods. Foreign reserves more than doubled to $4 billion...
...nation's insistence on efficiency and productivity has sacrificed not only the small and medium-sized farmer but the small and medium-sized businessman and industrialist--all of whom are Brazilians--to the advantage of multinational corporations...Our greatest problem is the fact that a certain few interests in Brazil--they depend on the whim of a mere handful of administrators--have become too big for our institutions to handle. The classical corrective steps that other countries use to impose compliance with their financial and economic policy, in Brazil just do not seem to protect the public interest...
Little is known about loannidis' past. Born in 1923, the son of a moderately well-off businessman, he entered the Greek military academy in 1940, shortly before his country was attacked by Italy. During World War II, loannidis served with an anti-German (and antiCommunist) resistance unit. After the war, he was assigned to a succession of low-profile and lusterless army jobs...