Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...table in Mexico City's Camino Real Hotel, a foreign businessman and a middle-ranking government official are talking quietly in a corner. Midway through the conversation, the foreigner casually places an envelope on a chair next to him. When the foreigner rises to leave, the envelope remains behind. The government official slips it into his coat pocket a few minutes later and departs...
...connection with foreign business ventures in the past year alone. To do business in Saudi Arabia, it is essential to be connected, via an agent or middleman, to a member of the royal family, which controls not just the government but business as well. Says a veteran U.S. businessman bluntly: "Everyone needs a prince." Finding one is not hard; there are 5,000 princes in the royal family this underpopulated nation of 6 million...
During his presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan spoke of increasing the American propaganda effort, but in this winter of budget cutting no additional money is foreseen. This week the President is expected to name a new head of the ICA. The leading candidate: California Businessman Charles Wick, a close friend who was co-chairman of the Reagan Inauguration Committee...
...Derry, Pa. (pop. 3,400), near Pittsburgh, Boyer is the son of a railroad conductor and brakeman. Early on he was more inclined toward football than scholarship. His high school class voted him "most athletic"; his own ambition, he wrote presciently in his yearbook, was "to become a successful businessman." He also developed a taste for science. Encouraged by his hard-driving high school coach, who doubled as a science and math instructor, he went on to pursue those subjects at nearby St. Vincent College, a demanding Benedictine school. A few summers of digging ditches and working in a local...
VisiCalc translates simple commands typed on a keyboard into computer language that the machine then uses to solve problems. It enables a businessman, for example, to manipulate labyrinthine equations to calculate financial trends for his company. If he changes one figure, the machine can tell quickly how that affects the other numbers. A firm that gives its workers a 10% pay hike could estimate how that action would alter its costs, sales, profits, or dividends...