Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered their personnel or their dependents to leave Lebanon reads like a roll call of U.S. business overseas: General Electric, General Motors, Boeing, Lockheed, FMC Corp., International Harvester, American Cyanamid, Raytheon, First National City Bank, Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty, Irving Trust. "When the banks move out," observed one evacuated businessman last week, "that means the end of Beirut...
...club in Carlsbad, Calif. The entourage that appeared for the former President's "coming out" was intriguing. Tournament participants included Anthony Provenzano, unofficial boss of New Jersey's Teamsters; Allen Dorfman, convicted in 1972 for accepting a kickback from a union pension-fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted for misuse of union pension funds; and some other figures linked to organized crime. After finishing the day with a respectable 92 on the 72 par course, Nixon retired to a recreation room for a private chat with a select group of fellow players and autographed...
...film Diary (1974) is the result of a visit to the United States by of the Zagreb school of animation. In less than fifteen seconds, blobs expand into cocktail parties and a pudgy businessman is isolated; he sprouts into the air, his legs become the World Trade Towers with New York at his feet, his cigar turns into innumerable smokestacks, and neon signs spring from his vest: WORK! PROSPERITY! BIG BUSINESS...
...excessive. A hospitalized businessman expounds on capital accumulation while receiving an enema...
...extensive collection of Wolfe's papers housed in Houghton, the gift of New Orleans businessman William B. Wisdom, contains a diverse assortment of items, including 1000 post-cards Wolfe collected of European art and historical sites and a number of his works inscribed to Aline Bernstein, his lover and the model for the character Esther who appears in several of his novels...