Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lorean's trial should begin by the end of the year. Guilty verdicts could mean a prison sentence of 15 years or longer. His alleged coconspirators, Aviation Businessman William Morgan Hetrick and Stephen Arrington, remain on Terminal Island, unable to raise bail of $20 million and $250,000 respectively...
...what the city has endured. For most of the summer Beirut was a bloody battleground for Israeli troops and Palestinian guerrillas. By the time both sides finally withdrew, there was no euphoria, only relief that it was over. No one knows how badly Beirut was damaged, but one Lebanese businessman places the cost of rebuilding the city at more than $10 billion. Though it is possible to drive safely from East to West Beirut, passing only the occasional Lebanese army checkpoint, the years of division have left their wounds. It is as if the people still cannot believe their luck...
Most of the credit for the cleanup operation belongs to Rafiq Bahaeddine al Hariri, a wealthy Lebanese businessman from Sidon. Owner of a construction firm called Oger, which has headquarters in Paris, Hariri has donated the services of hundreds of workers and a small army of equipment, including 40 bulldozers, 60 trucks, ten garbage trucks, five excavators and a pair of cranes, each able to hoist up to 40 tons. The estimated tab so far: $7.5 million, all of it paid by Hariri...
McNamara's soulmate, Walpole businessman Ray Shamie, used almost $1 million of his own income to battle Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and he failed to make a dent in the presidential aspirant's popularity. Rep. Margaret Heckler (R-Mass.) lost the seat she has held for eight terms. In the state legislature, Democrats added to their already lopsided majorities in both houses. They now control the House 131 to 29 and the Senate...
...race which looked like a runaway as recently as mid September has, according to the polls, ended in a photo-finish. Frank Lautenberg, a moderate Democratic businessman from Montclair, has succeeded in raising serious questions in voters minds about sending a 72-year-old gadfly to the Senate merely because her heart's in the right place and it's sort of cute when she smokes her pipe and reminisces about the years between the Great Wars...