Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Trust doesn't answer, really. They are less enterprising in confronting the social issues than in analyzing the cultural deficiency, they are better at awakening the dormant sensibility of the man-on-the-street than they are at challenging the very alert interests of the developer and businessman...
Senator Robert Taft Jr., the latest in a family of Republicans, is embroiled in a close rematch with Howard M. Metzenbaum, the Democrat he vanquished to first win the seat in 1970. Since that defeat, Metzenbaum, a Cleveland businessman, has been in and out of the Senate, as the appointee of Democratic Governor John Gilligan to replace Republican Willian B. Saxbe when Saxbe retired to become Attorney General. Metzenbaum lost his bid for election in a hard-fought 1974 primary battle against the eventual winner, Senator John Glenn...
...government services. Characteristically choosing the Vietnam War as an example, Fallows maintains that a theme that "rings out from history" is the inability of those performing a job to communicate what's going right and what's going wrong to those making policy decisions. He believes Jimmy Carter the businessman and government reorganizer would attack this "detachment" of experience and decision-making...
Oliver's role is at once more fun and a greater challenge. His ability to switch successfully from Dr. Szell, the traveling businessman, to Dr. Szell, the barbarous torturer and murderer, to Dr. Szell, the frightened old man, makes the evil Szell character believable in its horror, and gives the movie its strength...
...unprecedented criticism of Moody's stems indirectly from letters written to various public officials-including Moody's President John Lockton-by Arthur Cohen, a Hollywood, Fla., businessman who holds $50,000 worth of New York City notes. Cohen was furious about the state's decision to put a moratorium on payment of principal of outstanding city notes. In one of his latest letters to Lockton, Cohen charged that New York Governor Hugh Carey "and his legislative colleagues have perpetrated what amounts to one of the biggest fraudulent acts" in U.S. history. He further claimed that challenges...