Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look at people today. They do not got to expensive French restaurants to ward off starvation. Movie stars do not build huge mansions merely to escape the cold. Nor does the businessman wear patent leather shoes to protect his feet from the hot pavement...
Fred Cohen of Out of Town News said the project was a primary concern of the Harvard Square Businessman's Association, and added that most businessmen would just "wait...
...days. But before Richard Helms begins to think he may never breathe the open air of a U.S. District courtroom, he might consider one of Griffin Bell's more cryptic comments. A Washington reporter took Bell aside after the attorney general announced the 32-count indictment against South Korean businessman Tongsun Park and asked him if Justice planned to prosecute Helms. Bell replied, "It seems to be the season...
...people and industrial systems rather than an entrepreneur with marketable skills. What makes the Gamesman different, though, is what makes him want to do all that manipulating in the first place--not money, not power, but instead the glory and satisfaction that come from being a winner. The modern businessman, it seems, is driven not by a work ethic, but a win ethic, an odd philosophy that seems to reduce life to an endless string of fourth-down goal-line stands. The book brings to mind Vince Lonbardi's famous benediction to the Green Bay Packers' "Winning isn't everything...
...reports surfaced of his financial difficulties and his high-rolling behavior as a banker in Georgia before he joined Old Friend Jimmy Carter's Administration. By last week rumors were cascading through Washington and Atlanta that his resignation, while not necessarily imminent, was inevitable. One well-placed Atlanta businessman, who is close to both Lance and Carter, told friends that Lance has offered to resign twice, but that Carter talked him out of it both times. Another Georgian quoted Presidential Aide Stu Eizenstat as saying a couple of weeks ago, "It's quite obvious Bert...