Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week for Nicholas Nicola, 23, of Britain, released from an Iranian prison, where he had served two years for alleged illegal entry into Iran and illegal possession of weapons. The release, coupled with the renewal of diplomatic relations between Iran and Britain, raised hopes that a second Briton, businessman Roger Cooper, 52, might soon be set free...
...book The Tongue-Tied American, Paul Simon (D.-III.) recounts the answer of a Japanese businessman when asked which is the most important foreign language...
...businessman replied, "Sir, the most useful international language in world trade...is the language of your client...
Imagine an American businessman, tourist or college student asked the same question...
...thousands of them invaded the rain-soaked field to chant, dance and rip down the goalposts. They paraded the uprights around the field and out into the parking lots. They even deposited a chunk of one outside the private box of Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson, a Detroit businessman whom they once booed. "We'll build new goalposts," said Wilson happily, "and they can tear those down...