Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word dependents was defined more and more loosely as the airlift progressed?partly because, as one American businessman put it, the Vietnamese extended family is "like a chain letter," stretching to include a virtually endless stream of cousins, nephews, grandmothers and in-laws. One American departed from Tan Son Nhut with 39 "dependents." A U.S. businessman recognized a couple of prostitutes he had seen at the Palace Hotel bar in Saigon and discovered that they were leaving under a new "no-marriage clause"?which meant, in effect, that in the crisis, a departing American can take his girl friend...
...elegant house in Saigon, workmen filled wooden crates with the wealthy businessman's handsome collection of ancient stone carvings, antique porcelain and paintings. The art treasures were going to Singapore, but the owner and his wife, unlike many of their moneyed peers, had not found a way to follow them. Neither his government nor his American friends nor his contacts in the Cholon underworld had been able to help...
Moeller's friends and acquaintances in Spencerville cannot imagine that the local farm boy and self-made man could have plotted such a scheme. "He doesn't do things that way," says Police Chief David Colgan. "He's a square shooter, a good, levelheaded businessman...
...provide justice for our own? We write tax laws which permit these conditions to exist, which invite their persistence. It's not only a matter of taxes being levied relatively heavily on working people-though it is hard. But the rich can jump through loopholes like trained acrobats, a businessman can go to the plushest restaurant in El Paso with a friend and after three courses and two drinks apiece write the whole thing off as tax deductible. Well that's great for him, his friend and the Alka-Seltzer people...
...Linowitz; Marietta Tree, a city planner and former chief of the U.S. delegation to the U.N.; and Lowell Dillingham, scion of an old Hawaiian family. Only Dillingham appears cast in the elegant Trippe mold. Though a Boston Peabody, Mrs. Tree is known for her liberal views. Linowitz, a sagacious businessman, is expected to give Seawell tough-minded support...