Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such results should come as no surprise. Just listen to Coach Joe Restic, Harvard's top broker, who subscribes to the theory that practice makes the best businessman every Saturday afternoon...
...Soldiers are everywhere (museums even offer specially priced "soldier" tickets). Yet for all that, the city is much calmer than the choreographed, telegenic demonstrations suggest. For most of the area's residents, the convulsions of the "demo-crazy" students are as remote as South Bronx gangland warfare to a businessman in Manhattan; many, in fact, are concerned not that security will be too lax at the Olympics, but that it will be too inflexibly tight...
...businessman with no academic experience, MacLaughlin proved unable to mediate a dispute between divestment activists and their opponents on a campus conservative journal. Some members of the Dartmouth Review razed the shanties erected by the anti-aparthied activists shortly before the school's Winter Carnival. The result was an increase in campus racial tensions and a crisis in confidence that led one professor to say at a faculty meeting that MacLaughlin had made Dartmouth "the laughingstock of the Ivy League...
...that "there are plenty of people roaming around the country nowadays, ((having)) a good time with other people's possessions." The anti-handout convictions too are often born of careful thought and high ideals. "I have never given a red cent to a panhandler, and I never will," declares Businessman Wade Lewis, 47, of Greenville, N.C. "I won't give anybody anything, but I will help somebody go through a trash can to pull out cans and claim the nickel deposit. People need to know that they have to work to get what they need...
...note demanded that Hearin "put these people back in the shape they was in before they got mixed up with" School Pictures. Although no amounts were specified, the twelve named in the letter are former franchisees who were sued by Hearin for nonpayment of bills. "Like any businessman, I have made decisions which may appear to others as unfeeling, but those appearances are not true," Hearin said at a press conference. "Moreover, those decisions were mine, not my wife's, and she had nothing to do with them...