Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, although it occasionally breaks into the open, as it did last week when all but one member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations refused to meet with Sadat in Washington, as the Carter Administration had invited them to do. But Philip Klutznick, a Chicago businessman who heads the World Jewish Congress, attended-and drew complaints from other leaders that he was dividing and weakening the American Jewish community. Retorted Klutznick: "Our Government has exerted every bit of legitimate influence to try to keep the negotiations going, and I think that our Government should be applauded...
...added, "The American farmer and small businessman is the last stronghold of free enterprise in the world today." As far as he is concerned, the American Agricultural Movement is trying not only to keep him in business, but to uphold his America, and the free-enterprise system, as well...
Many of Carter's budget decisions came down on the side of the young, the black, the poor, the small businessman. Small was beautiful, large was suspect. Yet the mathematician in Carter dragged him to the understanding that he had to entice corporate America to greater efforts through tax incentives. The welfare of Ms little people depended...
...would try to reduce the role of Government spending in what is now a $2 trillion economy* from about 22% of gross national product next fiscal year to 21% by the time his first term ends in 1981. That is a goal that the most crustily conservative Republican businessman could wholeheartedly endorse, if he happened to believe that the President meant...
...Republicans to balancing the budget. Moreover, blacks are increasingly attaining middle-class status; 30% of black families now have incomes of $15,000 or above (compared with 53% of white families), an income group whose interests diverge from those of the ghetto and black leaders. Says black Miami Businessman David Fincher, a registered Democrat: "Democrats think we are still on our knees begging and praying. I'm looking for anyone to deliver what we need to be good Americans in the arena of free enterprise. If Republicans are serious, I'm sure I will go to them." Additionally...