Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into effect drastic austerity measures, including import restrictions and foreign exchange controls. Nonetheless, the stores of Asian traders in Nairobi were still full of luxury imports available to the economic elite and the more blatantly corrupt members of Moi's own government. Warns one Nairobi businessman: "Unless the government does something drastic to improve the situation, all hell is going to break loose...
...already proud town has tapped whole new reserves of native boosterism. Green bows are stuck up everywhere, as are green WE CAN DO IT bumper stickers. The supply of WE CAN DO IT lapel pins sold out some time after the June "Save Our Valley Rally." One local businessman thinks that other merchants will follow his lead and cut prices by 20% as their share of the community sacrifice...
...congenitally unable to keep a secret. At Las Vegas he was supposed to announce at a press conference that he had signed a deal to distribute CNN in Japan. But a day before, he was blurting out the details to anyone close enough to listen. As a businessman he shows little suspicion and less patience. He sometimes makes deals to distribute CNN on the basis of 30 seconds of chat and a handshake, even with strangers...
...surprise was an attack on the "three-martini lunch," long decried by liberals as a subsidy for the rich. Over the objections of the hotel and restaurant lobby, the Senate voted to reduce by half the deduction allowed corporations for business-related meals and entertainment in town; a traveling businessman or woman would still be able to 5 deduct these expenses in full. This tax increase was added when a proposal to withhold a part of restausrant tips was defeated...
...death that affected Britons most profoundly. Bystanders who rushed to help victims of the first blast in Hyde Park were repelled by the senseless attack on ceremonial guards. "I saw one trooper with his head blown off and two others lying on the ground covered with blood," said a businessman. Wounded troopers staggered in the road muttering, "Bastards, bastards." Of the 27 people who were injured by the nail bomb in Hyde Park, 17 were civilian bystanders. Said a worker in nearby Knightsbridge: "The first thing I saw was a middle-aged lady on her hands and knees screaming, with...