Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week No. 10 Downing Street belatedly released Wilson's nominees. As it turned out, Goldsmith would not be awarded a peerage after all, but rather the lesser rank of knighthood, a more appropriate distinction for a businessman of Goldsmith's stature. British editorial writers and commentators gave Wilson's list of 42 nominees high marks for its surprise value and about a C-minus for taste and distinction. Among the recipients...
Like a confident businessman, J. Lawrence Joyce walked through the Buildings and Grounds office yesterday where he will soon be the director, introducing himself to employees and greeting by name one man whose picture he remembered from the staff book...
...local and municipal elections last June, Italy's self-confident Communists won almost 34% of the vote, compared with just above 35% for the Christian Democrats. Since then, the Christian Democrats, though thoroughly aroused to their plight, scarcely seem to have recovered any political ground. Says Small Businessman Eugenic Buontempo of Naples, reflecting the resigned attitude of millions of his countrymen: "We've tried everything else; we might as well try the Communists." Gianni Agnelli, head of the giant Fiat company and Italy's foremost industrialist, describes the Christian Democratic government today as "confused" and "incapable...
Novelist Spiro Theodore Agnew did not have Watergate to kick around. Earlier, more mundane transgressions forced his retirement from the vice presidency. He was already busy building a new career as an international businessman when the lives of his former Government colleagues started to fall dramatically apart. The Canfield Decision is about the destruction of a promising political career in 1983, but basically it is an old cold war horse of a novel, reminiscent of the bestsellers of the '50s and early...
Flesh sees America closer up, as a traveling businessman constantly criss crossing the country and sampling its incredibly juxtaposed variety. An on-the-road hero, he is a type basic not only to the American economy but to its literature as well. His story moves like his life, from one picaresque adventure to another...