Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businessman and as a friend and admirer of Dean Ebert, I was disappointed in your editorial criticizing his consulting relationship with Squibb Corporation. While I certainly respect your right to question any and all consulting arrangements, I believe that with this right goes the responsibility to try to put the relevant facts in perspective. This you utterly failed...
...Atlantic were presented with the most elaborately packaged claim of all. In a six-part series that included photographs purportedly taken of Bormann last October and excerpts from supposedly secret documents, Hungarian-born U.S. Author Ladislas Farago contended that the missing murderer was alive and living as a prosperous businessman in Latin America...
Klaus Barbie, 59, was the Gestapo chief in Lyon. In 1954, a French military court sentenced him to death in absentia for the torture and murder of Jean Moulin, the martyred leader of the French Resistance. Today Barbie lives as a wealthy, naturalized businessman under the name of Klaus Altmann in La Paz, Bolivia. France's request for his extradition has been ignored by the Bolivian government...
...notably liberal on racial matters, Holshouser also had some campaign assets of his own, among them a record as a can-do state legislator and an endorsement from the Charlotte Ob- server. But he was outspent 2-to-1 by Democrat Hargrove ("Skipper") Bowles Jr., 52, an ebullient millionaire businessman who lavished $1.3 million on a slick statewide media campaign. Not even Bowies' G.O.P.-scale spending, or the Democrats' 3-to-l edge in voter registrations, could stem the Nixon tide, which made Holshouser North Carolina's first Republican Governor-elect since...
...many of whom still languish in jail without any charges being lodged against them. Only three of Manila's seven television channels have been allowed to broadcast again; last week Marcos ordered others permanently closed. "It would be too unpopular to keep them all closed down," observed one Manila businessman. "After all, a television set is the biggest investment of most families." The only newspapers available are those that are uniformly pro-Marcos; censorship has increased the hunger for news, though not universally. "I think it is better without them," said a waiter. "They used to keep me all stirred...