Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentines appeared to miss their deposed leader, who had been President only since December. Said the English-language Buenos Aires Herald: "Galtieri lasted not quite six months and managed to plunge the nation into a farcical war which besmirched the honor of the military." Proclaimed a prominent businessman: "He should be hung. No, drawn and quartered. No, it is better to let him live with his dishonor, 24 hours a day for the rest of his life." That outraged judgment seemed far from fair in a country that has been teaching its children for more than a century that...
...wiretaps made by the FBI on an admitted Mafia member, William Masselli. The Donovan associate was named on an internal FBI memo recounting information that the bureau claims to have orally summarized to Fielding. Yet when this information was later given to the Senate committee, the identity of the businessman was deleted...
...inflationary fever that raged during much of the 1970s has subsided. Says Kay Cooper, a receptionist in a Manhattan optometrist's office: "I don't see inflation coming down at all. It still costs a fortune just to use the subway and the bus." Adds New York Businessman Alfred Sandberg: "You feel that if you don't buy something today, tomorrow the price will...
Noting that the United States has 16 times more lawyers per capita than Japan, a leading Japanese businessman last night said that suspicion and excessive emphasis on cautious decisions id hampering business performance in this country...
...most expensive city, according to Business International, a New York consulting firm. Indeed, with such eye-opening price tags as $156.25 for a hotel room, $625 a week for car rental, $48.88 for a meal for one and $350 for a night on the town with three clients, a businessman's expense statement in Lagos soon begins to resemble this year's budget deficit...