Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scared Off. The lack of any credible policy aggravates the economy's malaise. "Until there is stability of some kind, no one will have any confidence," observed a Lisbon businessman. "Right now, I'd accept anything except the Maoists if the government could only make it stick." Foreign investors have been scared off by the constant flux of the M.F.A.'s policies, and speeches such as that last week by Premier Gonçalves before a labor leaders' meeting in Lisbon. "Ours is a fight to the death against capitalism!" he boomed. "The forces of great...
...Greece when the Nazis invaded in 1941. His father is not only a self-made millionaire in the buccaneer Onassis mold, but also a former professor of law at the Athens Graduate School of Economics and Business Science. Alexander, an avid collector of antique Rolls-Royces, is a shrewd businessman who graduated from Zurich University with an honors degree in mechanical engineering. Regarded as a forceful, ambitious pragmatist by his business associates, he developed his family's ultramodern shipbuilding facilities at Eleusis. "Christina wanted a hardboiled, tough decision maker," said one of her friends last week, "and that...
...power, I think we can look to the future with confidence." Evidently Agee did. At the end of his senior year he was interviewed by a CIA recruiter on campus. He decided to join only after realizing that he did not want to be a lawyer or a businessman. Such was the genesis of the Cold War warrior that Agee was to become...
...pressed the Ardennes offensive during Christmas week 1944, Skorzeny directed the infiltration of hundreds of English-speaking Germans clad in U.S. uniforms behind Eisenhower's lines. While awaiting a denazification trial in 1948, Skorzeny escaped the German prison camp at Darmstadt and spent his remaining years as a businessman in Spain...
Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer. Far from admiring merchants, he looked upon them as a greedy lot who were forever trying to bypass the market by conspiring to fix prices and hold down wages. But he thought, somewhat naively, that such monopolistic schemes could prosper only with the active aid of government?which, in his day, they often got. So he advocated complete laissez-faire. Government, he said, should stop trying to regulate trade, cease all intervention in the market and let free competition work its wonders...