Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford's client on the East Coast, has no complaints and probably should have none, considering that her income, largely earned through Ford, has been estimated at $300,000 a year. But Ford is not universally popular says a fashion photographer with satisfaction: "Now she's up against a businessman who's taking her best talent...
...film like An Unmarried Woman can bring has been slow in arriving, and in between those disasters were years of hard work. Though Clayburgh, now 33, likes to think that she just wandered aimlessly through her high school and college years, her father, Albert Clayburgh, a rich Manhattan businessman, tells a different story. "Jill was driven," he says, "always taking singing, dancing and acting lessons. The thing I remember most is her determination and ambition...
During the storm, while one evacuee bemoaned her fate, a local businessman said, in all seriousness, "Why, with all the federal and private relief, if you're smart, you can make money on this deal." Yet, since the initial shock of the destruction has taken hold, people have been left sorting through their damaged furniture and the ruined momentos of their lives. For the immediate future, at least, the residents of Hull have resigned themselves to a bleaker life, for a return to normalcy--let alone advancement--has washed away with the mud and salt water...
...island in 1973, Elko promised that Flood would increase U.S. aid. Within a month of Elko's return home, Congress approved $23.4 million in economic aid for Haiti, about 21/2 times as much as Haiti received during the previous year. In return, says Lucien Rigaud, a prominent Haitian businessman and former aide to Duvalier...
...took to the computer more eagerly or saw its usefulness more quickly than the businessman. Now, 24 years after General Electric became the first company to acquire a computer, these versatile machines have become the galley slaves of capitalism. Without them, the nation's banks would be buried under the blizzard of 35 billion checks that rain down on them annually, and economists trying to project the growth of the nation's $2 trillion economy might as well use Ouija boards. In the airline industry, computers make it possible to reserve a seat on a jumbo...