Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have fled, either because they feared the uncertainties of the months ahead or retribution from a new black government, still represent less than 1% of the white population. But to many onlookers, the sailing of the Dom Henrique seemed a historic Portuguese retreat. Observed Joaquim Peres, a white businessman who will stay: "It is the end of one world and the beginning of another...
...Roman tomb with her boy friend while Turks shelled the area; the couple feared they would be buried alive. Twins Amanda and Penny Mieras of Kent spent their 16th birthday using lipstick, eye shadow and a bed sheet to make a Union Jack to identify them as neutrals. U.S. Businessman John Mazzarella of New York City was among a group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish snip ers outside. He told of the "Hollywood scene with planes flying in formation and paratroopers dropping all over...
...such a program across, is all too obviously doubtful. The more important question might be whether any U.S. Administration could summon the courage to launch this kind of all-out attack on inflation. It would succeed only if the public could be persuaded that all parts of society-the businessman jawboned out of price increases, the worker asked to settle for a modest wage increase, the banker told not to make certain loans -were being asked to make equitable sacrifices. The only answer is that the risks of not doing so are even greater. For the Nixon, Ford...
...class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire. After him, Lorenzo de' Medici, banker, merchant, poet, who ruled Florence with a firm hand. He invented the balance of power to keep the quarrelsome Italian states at peace. Then Camillo Benso di Cavour, farmer, financier, journalist, businessman, who turned tiny Sardinia into the kingdom of Italy in a matter of months...
...result can be questionable scoops. In April, for instance, the Chicago Daily News and the New York Post gave prominent play to a statement that Nixon two years ago met Robert Vesco, the businessman and G.O.P. campaign contributor who was later to become a fugitive from federal prosecution. The story called the development a "new bombshell." In fact, the source was the fallen financier, Bernard Cornfeld, a Vesco enemy fresh out of jail himself. His account lacked proof that the meeting had taken place; even Cornfeld did not claim firsthand knowledge of it. The New York Times last January front...