Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel J. Hayes--60 Rindge Ave., vice chairman, businessman, former Cambridge mayor and city councillor...
...which way the delegation would finally go seemed to lie with its chairman, Clarke Reed. Reed, a wealthy businessman (construction, barges and farmland) who smiles readily, loves parties and delves into philosophy, denies he has any "kingmaker" role in influencing the Mississippi delegation. A political purist who would like to see the two major parties divide along liberal-conservative lines, he switched from the Democratic Party in 1950 to push his conservative beliefs. Reed had professed to favor Reagan, but was thought by some insiders in the delegation to be awaiting an excuse to move to Ford. The selection...
Little Brain. Korean technical know-how is in demand too; Seoul Architect S.G. Kim, for example, is designing a 4,200-unit apartment house in Tehran for a fee of $1 million. But Americans and Europeans are better at providing technical services, admits Seoul Businessman Chongwhan Choi, and on the whole, he says, he and his compatriots are content "doing jobs that require a lot of muscle power but little brain." To meet the construction deadline for the Jubail harbor, for example, Hyundai Co. is flying in 300 workers a week for an eventual total of 3,300, and Korean...
...heavily on trade with Japan, South Korea's 35 million people suffered badly from the 1973 Arab oil embargo. The slackening pace of Japan's economic growth also contributed to a South Korean trade deficit of $2.4 billion in 1974. But largely as a result of what Businessman Choi calls the kiri-komi (swashbuckling assault) on the Middle East, South Korea's trade deficit for the first quarter of 1976 is down to only $100 million, and the prospects look bright for still more improvement: Saudi Arabia alone will need a million foreign workers for its fiveyear...
Hillis, who has never married, says that when she was young she never thought that "being a woman would make a difference [in her career], because I'd always done everything I wanted." Her father Glen was a lawyer and businessman in Kokomo, Ind.; her mother Bernice, an amateur musician. The most illustrious member of the family was Bernice's father, Elwood Haynes, who designed one of the first successful automobiles and discovered stainless steel...