Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that they had greater military capability than many outsiders had given them credit for. Most important, they had forced the world to take them and their claim to the Malvinas seriously. "This war has shown that we can stand up and say we are somebody," said a Buenos Aires businessman. "No one likes wars. We are not used to wars. But when it came to a test, the military, who have been such a tangible part of Argentine life, proved that they could do what they were supposed to do." Perhaps. But a bigger test for the country...
...August 1941, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox was on his way to batting .406. A pair of businessman's Florsheim shoes cost $9.50. The New York Telephone Co. reported that for the first time in ten years more phones were installed than disconnected. The Works Progress Administration, which only that year had begun making efficient monthly counts of the number of jobless in the U.S., announced that the unemployment rate for August...
...genteelly British ways of life. They congregate at institutions like the Hurlingham Club, a vast social and recreational complex in the heavily British Buenos Aires suburb of Hurlingham. The club has five polo fields, two swimming pools, a golf course, cricket pitch and gabled clubhouse. Says an Anglo-Argentine businessman: "The tragedy of it all is that 99% of the Anglo-Argentine community are in favor of the Argentine stand. We can't understand why Mrs. Thatcher reacted so violently...
Aides to the three gubernatorial candidates in each party all said they have the 10,000 necessary signatures, though Republican John W. Sears '52 is uncertain of an exact count. Saugus businessman Francis P. Rich is running as an independent and needs 40,000 signatures. Last night he said he was still waiting for returns from the western part of the state, adding that the search would "go down to the wire...
Reaction among the country's remaining 190,000 whites, who make up less than 3% of the population, ranged from outrage to resignation. "These are insults to our history and blows to our pride," protested a white businessman. "And I'm not sure either whether Karl Marx Street, Harare, is an address that will attract much overseas business...