Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already in this respect. Obviously, the major business leaders are inclined to vote Republican. They always have been, but I think that they will be eager to help me evolve the solution to these problems. And I don't have any concern about that. I'm a businessman. I talk their language...
...easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated six years ago in another close battle...
...people have been hurt and alienated by Viet Nam, Cambodia, Watergate, CIA, Angola and so forth. They've been withdrawing from participation in Government. They've lost trust in public officials, and it is time for a basic change. My own background outside Washington as a former businessman and a nuclear engineer qualifies me to go in and make those basic changes...
...freehanded Korean businessman had fled, the party-giving Oriental beauty was testifying to a federal grand jury, and a bipartisan clutch of Congressmen were nervous about Washington's latest payola scandal...
...case, an American businessman who wanted to comply with the blacklist would have trouble finding out whom he was supposed to discriminate against. The list is constantly changing as firms are added-sometimes for unfathomable reasons-and others are dropped, often after paying the right fixer or offering lucrative investments in Arab lands. The only copy of the list that Washington has is dated 1970. Among those on the list: Motorola, CBS, Republic Steel, Kaiser Aluminum, RCA, Xerox, Lord & Taylor, Owens-Illinois, Ford, Coca Cola, Zenith...