Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical example, according to the indictment: in June 1974 Co-Defendant Mitchell, a Georgia businessman who acted as Lance's "blind" trustee when Lance became federal Budget Director, had only $97 in his checking account. But he wrote a check for $200,000, payable to Lancelot, a company owned by Lance and his wife LaBelle. The next day Lance and others got another bank to loan Mitchell $100,000 to partially cover the check. A couple of weeks later a third bank made a $100,000 loan to Mitchell. During that period, Mitchell also arranged a $175,000 loan...
Cooke, 66, built the Forum sports arena for $16 million in 1967 and bought the Lakers from Minncapolis businessman Bob Short for $5 million in 1967. He paid $2 million to the National Hockey League for the Kings as an expansion franchise...
...boycotting countries. Even the World Tourism Organization, a loose association of governmental travel bureaus that develops package tours in the Middle East, abruptly moved its regional headquarters from Cairo to the Jordanian capital of Amman. Reminded of the longstanding Arab boycott against Israeli commercial interests, one U.S. businessman in Cairo concluded: "We're faced with a new Arab blacklist...
...relations with Big Business, never warm or close, have become even cooler and more distant as the President and his lieutenants have poured out inflammatory business-bashing rhetoric. The assaults are particularly troubling because they come at a time when the nation can ill afford more divisiveness. "Every big businessman is wondering when it will be his turn," says Forrest Rettgers, chief lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers. "Carter is shooting at oil now, but who will be next...
...ranch in Oregon and was a nun for eleven years, started dishing chow for shearing crews "as soon as I could reach the top of the stove." Later she served three meals a day for 300 people at a Philadelphia convent. She now caters to three children and a businessman husband, Paul, whose family in Buffalo "never had less than six in help." Attorney Robert Holland, who has 225 cases of wine in the cellar of his house, regards gourmet cooking as a way of shaping "taste in the home." He proudly notes that his son Justin...