Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electronic tickers in brokers' offices or stare at television monitors through plate-glass windows. In downtown Boston, police ordered a Fidelity Investments branch to turn off its ticker because a throng of nervous investors had spilled out onto Congress Street and was blocking traffic. George Finch, 66, a retired businessman in San Francisco, summed up the bewilderment: "I don't know what the hell is going...
...West German amateur pilot who landed the rented Cessna just outside Moscow's Red Square last May, stayed behind in Lefortovo Prison awaiting assignment to a Soviet labor camp to serve his four- year sentence. The plane was flown to West Germany and transferred to its new owner, Munich Businessman Wolfgang Rudy Neumann, 51, who bought the craft from a Hamburg aviation club...
...business school's purpose is such that if Edleman's methods were inappropriate, logic fails to bring one to that conclusion. After all, the New York businessman was supposed to be teaching his students how to take over a company, and in such transactions, a lot of money is at stake. As one of Edleman's students said, the offering of the money made the assignment both more challenging and more realistic; it helped them learn as much as it tantalized them with visions of wealth. Just like the elementary school assignment in which you have to write a business...
...requires a great amount of pretense to pass off a business school as a part of an academic community. But we should not be so quick to mock that pretense. So long as universities take as part of their mission the education of future businessman, lawyers, and doctors, they will always be something less than committed to a purely intellectual ideal. But it is at least nice to see that they have some regrets about this state of affairs--that a Business School such as Columbia still is commited to the acadmeic ideal enough that a professor such as Edleman...
Just when I was getting really frustrated, I was assigned to do a feature on a local businessman who had started a track and field club for underprivileged youths...