Word: businessman
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...help Reagan with Texas, Fernandez, a California millionaire businessman, has been concentrating on the state's large Hispanic population. "I told the party I don't want to talk with Republicans; I want to go to the barrios," Fernandez says. And he has, visiting 15 Texas cities in six days last week to sway the 35-per-cent of Texas' Hispanic vote that he thinks will clinch the state for Reagan...
...Angeles slide. Dornan is an expert slinger; he has called Peck "a sick, pompous little ass" who is a "Daddy's boy looking for something to do." Early in the campaign, Dornan charged that Peck in 1978 accepted an illegal campaign contribution from an Alabama businessman who is in federal prison for fraud. The charge backfired: the businessman did try to contribute $13,000, but Peck eventually returned the checks. Peck faults Dornan for his membership, now terminated, on the advisory board of the right-wing Christian Voice organization of Pacific Grove, Calif...
Almost every Democratic leader is sweating out the campaign, and a few may go down to defeat, including House Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana. His opponent, Republican Businessman John Hiler, is working the factory gates for the blue-collar vote in a district that includes Elkhart County, where unemployment is nearly 16%. Trailing 12 points in the polls, Brademas is pouring tens of thousands of dollars into a media blitz that attacks Hiler as a tool of Big Oil because he opposes the windfall-profits tax. In Texas, House Majority Leader Jim Wright is in the toughest fight...
Blissfully surrounded by bales of Canadian $1 bills totaling $36,000, Toronto Businessman Wallace Edwards, 54, hoisted a glass of Russian vodka and savored victory. In the preceding days, he had legally seized a $13 million freighter, frozen the bank accounts of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and, in the process, succeeded in collecting a 13-year-old account from a rather unusual debtor-the Kremlin. It was without doubt one of the most dogged dunning operations on record...
Having made himself South Korea's best - and only - bet since Park's death, Chun is virtually assured of winning the presidency in March. Said one foreign businessman in Seoul after the constitutional vote: "The people know Chun and his government mean business. And you can't gain any thing by opposing them...