Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is why the scandal involving five U.S. Senators and the Arizona businessman who gave them more than $1 million is tantalizing: the smoking gun is being waved for all to see. Charles Keating is a former owner of California's Lincoln Savings and Loan and a defendant in a lawsuit involving racketeering, fraud and conspiracy in using the institution's funds. After the smoke clears, bailout of this S&L is expected to reach $2.5 billion, making it the nation's costliest thrift failure. When asked whether his fat contributions to the five Senators influenced them to take...
...President's greatest achievement has been to increase discipline in his 65,000-man army, which includes former rebel troops. Says a Kampala businessman: "Gone are the days when you had to hide your car from greedy soldiers and carry cash in your pockets to pay them off when they stopped you." Amnesty International reported that although there are still problems of torture and arbitrary detention, "the army is more subject to the law now than at any time in the last 20 years...
...They [Harvard officials] are too powerful for a small businessman like me to ever deal with. You're adults and you shouldn't be treated like kids. That's ridiculous," another retailer says...
...American Civil War forced the curtain higher. When the fighting began in 1861, Mathew Brady was the country's best-known photographer, an early specimen of the celebrity portraitist and a frank businessman whose New York City studio was located not far from P.T. Barnum's museum. Brady kept a second studio in Washington, and when the First Battle of Bull Run broke out just 25 miles from the capital, he rushed toward the lines with two vanloads of equipment. Amid the scramble of the Union retreat, all the plates from that first day's work were lost...
...bedroom draperies, a $500 shower curtain). The prosecution's star witness turned out to be Bakker himself. Jurors endured eight hours of videotape showing his histrionic money pitches and then heard the ex-preacher describe himself on the witness stand as a "minister of the gospel," not a "professional businessman...