Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handsome silver-haired businessman stretched out his 6-ft. 4-in., 170-lb. frame on the metal bunk in Cell 2 B4 of "the glass house," the downtown Los Angeles jail where male prostitutes, muggers and murderers are kept in holding pens. Arriving in the custody of FBI agents around 7:30 p.m., too late for Tuesday night's dinner, he disdained the tray of eggs, hash browns and sausage that was eventually offered. Throughout the night, he rarely slept; he just stared at the dank walls of the six-bed cell, which he occupied alone, and at the thick...
...could a shrewd businessman like De Lorean fall so stupidly and easily into the hands of drug suppliers and federal agents? From affidavits and numerous interviews, TIME correspondents have pieced together the following account of the astonishing case...
...began planning his drug-dealing scheme in earnest, De Lorean told a group of sports car dealers: "We will do anything to keep this company alive." But what he really seemed committed to keeping alive was an image of himself: John De Lorean, the smart and plucky maverick businessman, the high-stakes gambler who makes his own rules and always wins...
...movement's leaders are ebullient about their issue's general popularity. "We are in something of a lull," concedes Harold Willens, a wealthy Los Angeles businessman who is leading the campaign to approve the freeze referendum in California. One reason for the uneasiness in the movement is its very success. In less than two years it mounted the largest protest rally in the nation's history: more than 700,000 supporters jammed New York's Central Park in June. In August it failed by only two votes to be endorsed by the U.S. House of Representatives...
...romanticize the passing of the old ways. A people whose total energies were geared for survival no longer turns from new things that make survival easier. What the author wants is a balance that might preserve the Inuit spirit. The threat to that spirit is illustrated by an American businessman who asks an Eskimo carver to mass-produce an ivory figurine. Naturally, the American wants a volume discount. The native craftsman has a more natural idea. Turning to an interpreter, he says: "Tell this silly qallunaaq that the more of them I make alike, the more expensive it will...