Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition designed to make "gentlemen." The student lounging in the Junior Common Room of one of the Oxford colleges (often medieval in origin), taking afternoon tea (provided by the college butler) and resplendent in T-shirt and jeans, may be the son of a lord, a nouveau riche city businessman or a coal miner: you won't automatically be able to tell which. Course-work may be specialized and conservative--but it is leavened by the drama, debating, music, sports, and politics groups that English students throw themselves into in pursuit of our reputation as "gifted amateurs." The average English...
...risk he is gladly taking. Wilkinson could have made a lot more money as a businessman (his four-year contract reportedly carries an annual salary of $100,000), and he could still be a formidable political candidate: in 1964 he was nearly elected to the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma, a heavily Democratic state. But he is a restless and supercharged man, although he usually fools people by keeping his emotions tightly reined, and he could find no more heady challenge than football. He accepts the frustrations and the sleepless Sunday nights, when he replays a loss so vividly...
Kennedy's speech elicited a standing ovation, but the talk of the luncheon that followed the ceremony seemed to the Smith's address. He called the naming of the school's library for Engelhard "a travesty and a damn shame," and claimed the late businessman is a symbol of U.S. support of the apartheid regime...
...major problem historians face in the non-academic world is that few have the skills needed to "sell themselves" to prospective employers, despite their research, writing and information skills. "The fact that they have a Ph.D. and have taught esoteric courses is worthless," from the businessman's point of view, Robert Pomeroy, deputy advisor of the Inter-American Development Bank, told the students...
Even a holy man likes to shoot the breeze, and the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, chatted amiably with an American businessman on board a Pan Am flight to Japan. His Holiness was en route to a world Buddhist conference in Tokyo from India, where he has lived since fleeing Tibet and the Communists in 1959. Seated in the "frequent traveler" section (though it is only the fourth time he has left India), he told his companion that he had received a Japanese visa on one condition: stick to religious activities. "What is there to worry about...