Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written off Reagan and become hopelessly alienated from the "party of Lincoln," which enjoyed a virtual monopoly on black support until the New Deal. Today only 8% of blacks identify themselves as Republicans, compared with 81% who consider themselves Democrats. There are so few black Republicans, says Washington Businessman Connie Mack Higgins, a Lifelong member of the G.O.P, that "it's almost Like being addicted. You suffer not only the slings and arrows of your enemies but of your friends and neighbors and all of those who think you're out of your mind...
...named Bruno Rizzi. He turned up one day last week at a Geneva branch of the prestigious Bank of Switzerland to withdraw money - as much as $60 million, according to some reports - from numbered accounts. But Swiss police swiftly arrested him. His real identity: Licio Gelli, 63, an Italian businessman sought for 16 months for his part in two of the biggest scandals to rock Italy in years...
...labor leaders argue that the agency exports American jobs overseas, even though OPIC contends that it is a creator of employment by encouraging U.S. exports. null biggest problem, though, might be confusion with that other organization. Said one Haitian businessman: "OPIC? OPEC? I thought it was the oil cartel, but we soon learned they weren't throwing money around like the Arabs...
...other new ACSR members are the Rev. F. Washington Jarvis '61, Roxbury Latin High School's headmaster; William H. Claflin '65, a Boston businessman; and Divinity School student Thomas Mackall...
...work and those unable to compensate for economic misfortune is often a question of saving lives, a fact the President has ignored since taking office. While generals and planners were analyzing the performance of multi-billion-dollar weapons this summer and preparing budget requests, a bankrupt Ohio businessman named Antonio C. Garza took his wife. Kay, to make a new start in Texas. San Antonio police found the couple shot dead in the front seat of their car: Garza apparently killed his wife with a rifle before taking his own life. Near the bodies were bankruptcy papers, an empty wallet...