Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily with businessmen seeking export sales of clothes, plastics and wines. Many Greeks lost factories and homes in the north, but they are hustling so hard that per capita income in the Greek part of the island is back to its pre-1974 level ($1,200 per year). Businessman Theo Hadjilambrou, 38, says jokingly, "When we Greek Cypriots see one of our group living a little better, the others work 25 hours a day." Nonetheless, few Greek Cypriots would accept any peace agreement that did not give them some hope of returning to their former homes...
...Jersey Businessman, age 42: I want to be dressed as a baby...
...Businessman: Humiliated. The trigger words are diaper, pin, powder and naughty...
...Businessman: Oh, yes-itchy, kitchy...
Everyone in Greene's Panama is sick of the Canal situation: the businessman because it gives Torrijo too much leverage; Torrijo because he doesn't quite know how to use it; the peasants for a century worth of reasons. To revolt is not always to fulfill a class or national destiny, Greene suggests--perhaps a people may just get bored with peace...