Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bound exodus could hardly have occurred at a worse time for the country's faltering economy. The country's work force is only about 3 million, and unemployment has been rising rapidly. Hundreds of small businesses have closed, and large companies are not expanding. Says one Lisbon businessman with companies in Africa: "We could not employ in Portugal more than a fraction of our people from down there who have asked us for jobs...
...THERE'S not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet," a wrinkle-faced, cigar-chomping Jewish businessman assures the nineteen-year-old entrepreneur. "A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right...
...there is that note of redeeming social value to contend with. Screen writer Wynn (son of Keenan, grandson of Ed) has in the person of the warden wickedly parodied every businessman who ever exhorted his sales force with sporting metaphors, every overstuffed daddy who has lived out his fantasies of athletic glory by impersonating Vince Lombardi on a Little League field. The difference here is that the man has real guns, real power to extend and with hold favors. He is a genuinely frightening cautionary figure. It is too bad that the lessons his behavior might teach are often lost...
...economy, and the only question was which candidate could do the most about it. Given those facts, Republican voters chose a cigar-chomping, bald, self-made millionaire named Jack Eckerd, 61, who created a chain of 422 drugstores in the South. Eckerd came across as a solid businessman who might bring some horse sense to the fight against inflation. (Eckerd's opponent will be picked by a Democrat ic runoff next month...
...Allen Albert is a big businessman, who has mismanaged and possibly embezzled funds," John Jutkowitz, one of the striking actors, charged. "Albert tells us that he's poured thousands of dollars into this theater--if he's poured lots of money in, then who's to say he's not taking lots of money...