Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apartment dwellers in three large complexes near San Francisco may reap a dividend from the tax cut: their landlords have promised to reduce rents. To pass along his tax savings, one apartment-house owner pledged to lower rents $30 a month for 1,000 tenants. San Jose Businessman Larry Whitaker, president of Halcyon Communications, Inc., said he would prorate his own $18,921 property tax cut among his 150 California employees. The Bank of San Pedro knocked ¼% off its consumer loan rate in a similar move to distribute its tax benefits...
...lightly dismiss this plaint. To do so risks biting the hand that feeds. The U.S. cattleman is the descendant of the romantic cowboy, and for the most part he preserves those storied virtues of ruggedness, independence and dawn-to-dark hard work. But he is also a modern businessman, worried about cash flow and capital costs and, of course, interest rates. Says a typical cattle raiser in Oregon: "My family has been in this business for three generations, and we haven't been out of debt for one year...
Tens of thousands of cattlemen survived only on the sufferance of country bankers from 1974 through 1977, when any businessman could see that the cost of raising steers and cows was higher than the price for selling them. Cattlemen cut their herds from 132 million in 1975 to 115 million now, and the iron law of supply and demand levied a heavy fine on the supermarket shopper. When average prices of beef cuts jumped from $1.63 per lb. in March to $2.09 per lb. in June-far faster than the cost of living-Jimmy Carter's advisers urged...
...every woman or man chooses to revolt. While gauze-gazers in an office may not mind that a woman has gone from the synthetic to the slept-in look, the aspiring businessman who shows up for work in such deshabille may soon find that his future is as unstructured as his suit. Europeans, on the other hand, have never looked askance at a wrinkled, rumpled garment as worn by the likes of Charles de Gaulle or Sophia Loren. Clearly, though, U.S. tastes are changing. In time, Americans may even perceive the beauty in a wrinkled face...
...Warren got in there and reorganized the advertising and the release pattern. He made himself a real pain in the ass to the people at Warner's. 'Why do we have to deal with this good-looking actor?' was their attitude. People didn't recognize him as the superior businessman he is. They do now. The results of his efforts were absolutely electrifying...