Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talents come in handy. In the America of the 1990s, corporations have become all-powerful. They run police departments for municipal governments like caterers run restaurants for hotels. Corporate executives control everything, and as Robocop soon learns, it is a businessman named Dick who masterminded Murphy's murder...
When these talks were pursued, Shultz insisted on written negotiating instructions that ruled out any arms sales. Yet the State Department's representative at the talks in Frankfurt learned that the Iranians were working from a nine-point plan given to them by Albert Hakim, an American businessman used by Poindexter and North to handle the finances in the arms sales. The points included yet further weapons deals. More shocking, they included U.S. involvement in a scheme to win the release of 17 Al Dawa Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for blowing up a U.S. embassy building there...
...those excesses, however, paled beside PTL's underlying corporate style. PTL ran, says one former executive, on a "theology of building." Recounts Harry Hargrave, a Dallas businessman recruited by Falwell to run the shattered organization: "Jim would build something here, and then he'd have to build something bigger to finish paying for this as well as the enlarged cash flow." That pyramid philosophy led Bakker from his first Heritage Village television studio in Charlotte to Heritage USA and, finally, to the 500-room Heritage Grand Hotel and its sister, the unfinished Heritage Towers. Bakker's ultimate fantasy...
...spoke with an American businessman last May about his wish to buy weapons for a planned invasion of the Philippines, former President Ferdinand Marcos warned the man against using the telephone. The phones, said Marcos, could be tapped and used to record their conversation. The warning was ironic. Even as he spoke with Marcos, the businessman, Electronics Executive Robert Chastain, was secretly taping their every word with a special voice-activated recorder built into his burgundy-colored briefcase...
...intermittent legal skirmishes with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Chastain has been vaguely described as a business associate of Hirschfeld's. Last fall, in his search for financial backing, Marcos apparently sought out Hirschfeld because of the attorney's relationship with Mohammed al-Fassi, a client and wealthy Saudi businessman. Marcos wanted al-Fassi to loan him $18 million for weapons purchases. The loan would be secured by Marcos' hidden gold and a lien on his Swiss bank account...