Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Love of self is the basic task of life. It brings a sense of worth and immunizes against sorrows, even the death of a friend or relative. Bob Hoffman, a self-proclaimed psychic and former businessman, writes in Getting Divorced from Mother & Dad: "With self-love, death no longer brings severe depression...
...Armand Hammer, perhaps the world's most flamboyant businessman even at the age of 77, didn't want it that way. He wasn't content with presenting "Juno", his recently purchased $3.25-million Rembrandt, without a touch of the swashbuckler...
...during his hour-long tour Hammer remained the consummate businessman--even taking phone calls, one of them from Columbia's Soviet scholar and Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to arrange a meeting later that afternoon, presumably to discuss Soviet-American relations...
...through most of it, Brando remains cool, almost embarassed. He looks as if he might be a Republican businessman from a small mid-western city--a dark streak there of vicious potential belying his affable, almost naive manner...
Westmorland has abandoned all thought of retiring. He is negotiating the lease for a liquor store in a Decatur shopping mall. Says he: "I wondered if they'd be reluctant about doing business with a black man." But the rental agent "talked to me like any other businessman. The guy was beautiful. He highly respected me. It seemed he went out of his way to make it easy...