Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothbound world of rare-book dealers can fail to sense the excitement of the current paper chase. Behind the talk of versos and rectos is the awareness that big money is moving into the market. Disenchanted with stocks, wealthy investors have sought to beat inflation with old books. Connecticut Businessman Jonathan Goodwin, whose books were sold at the record-breaking auction, at least tripled his investment...
Baird, a retired businessman who graduated from Harvard in 1925, gave the University approximately three million dollars to establish chairs in the natural sciences, Herschbach said yesterday...
...many visitors, a crowd a day, to his collection: "My wife and children want some peace and quiet, so that's why I'm leaving." Being a Greek national, he is thinking of settling in Greece, but he may also go to the U.S. An astute businessman, he refuses to estimate the value of the paintings that the Ministry of Culture is letting him take out of Russia. (In view of the prices now being paid for major works of the early Russian avantgarde, it could run to more than $3 million on the Western market.) Costakis plans...
Once in charge of the factory, Pierre is forced to lead a double existence. On the surface he is a no-more-than-ordinarily troubled businessman with a pleasant, middle-class wife who bends and stretches in the morning so she'll still look acceptable in ten or twenty years, conscientiously takes the Pill, learns Spanish from a record, and with whom he cannot share his problems. Donning a beret and mounting a motorbike, Pierre cuts through the distinctive patches of gold and green that mark the Swiss countryside and becomes a hero in the style of Robin Hood...
...shrewd businessman who reads books and presents himself as less intellectual than he actually is, but that is simply a reflection of self-deprecating Southern humor and a long-standing desire to be a "good ole boy" having a few brews and shooting the breeze at his gas station...