Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britons than he arrived with." Columnist James Cameron, who calls himself an agnostic, wrote in the influential Guardian: "I could rather wish we had a few more Popes around, if they were as benevolent and rational as this one seems to be." In the crowd at Glasgow, one skeptical businessman remarked, "I have tremendous admiration for this man and what he is doing. The success of the Pope's trip is simply a case of the people responding to a real leader-one of the few in the world...
...California consumers have turned their monthly housing payments into a risky financial game. Businessman Craig Bowers stops paying the mortgage on his Tarzana home whenever he is short of cash, and resumes when times are better. Bowers has survived three foreclosure actions in the past two years, and still has his house. Says he: "Foreclosure is a game which I play. I know down to the hour when I have to pay the piper...
...recalls the 1979 protest against naming the Kennedy School Library after Charles W. Engelhard, an American businessman who made much of his fortune through mining interests in South Africa, succeeded just when students would have had to give up for reading period. "But, ultimately there are seven white men sitting on the Corporation and they're going to make the decision, and one students realize they've made the decision, they're not going to keep protesting--and there's no reason they should." He adds that the administration's policy is to oppose whatever student protesters suggest...
Eating at Le Français is serious business, and tablemates frequently converse with the intensity of opera buffs at intermission. Detroit Businessman Ed Connelly is a Le Français fan. He and his wife Pat popped into their eight-seat Cessna 421 a little over an hour ago and flew down to Wheeling just for dinner. They brought along Paul Mann, a wine importer, and his wife Rosi. The first courses are just arriving. Ed has ordered oysters: half a dozen embedded in their shells over spinach leaves and lobster mousse. Each is covered with julienne leeks...
...unemployment rate is approximately 30%. Two years of guerrilla warfare have nearly bankrupted the country and have destroyed tens of millions of dollars' worth of crops, roads, bridges and power stations. Says Georgetown University's Georges Fauriol: "The Administration will have a very hard time convincing any businessman who has to respond to his shareholders that investing in El Salvador is a good thing...