Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believes tribal charms make him invisible to antipoaching units. He buries his tusks in the village latrine or hides them in a nearby cave. He sells them for a pittance (as little as $40 for a tusk that may eventually bring $1,000 in Japan) to a respected businessman in a nearby town, who sells them to someone else for three times what he paid...
...Wang, 66, a businessman with silver hair and impeccable manners, is the dean of Hong Kong's ivory trade. He has never been to Africa, and the only elephant he has seen was in the Paris zoo. Yet he is a major conduit for ivory entering both Hong Kong and Japan. In February he helped Tokyo's largest trader, Koichiro Kitagawa, purchase nearly five tons of Sudanese ivory for $1 million from another Hong Kong dealer. In 1987 he engineered the purchase of 26 tons of Congo ivory by the Osaka trader Kageo Takaichi. The $3.5 million shipment contained...
...Trump- Crandall fight is too close to call. AMR closed at 103 3/4 on Friday, up 17 1/4 points for the week but 16 1/4 points below Trump's bid. Some speculators were not persuaded that Trump is serious about the bid. Despite his high profile, Trump as a businessman remains an enigma. Last week Playboy magazine disclosed that a clothed Trump may grace its cover early next year. Perhaps American Airlines is just another plaything for the man who has everything...
...says Choy. "But my Chinese government partners don't want to upset those who are lazy by allocating bonuses according to merit. They have their own version of the iron rice bowl, and they don't care if incentives will result in greater productivity and more profit. To a businessman their attitude is insane. But they are happy if they turn just a little profit, because they know that that will satisfy their higher-ups and that everyone will then be covered. Probably the only thing left for me to try is straight corruption...
Young's toe will be aimed at Tom Barrow, 40, a black businessman the mayor defeated four years ago by painting him as a pawn of white suburbanites. But Barrow has been blasting at Young's predilection for sparkling downtown development projects over measures to help the city's devastated neighborhoods. A cousin of the heavyweight champion Joe Louis, Barrow also derides the mayor as a holdover "from an old era" who naively granted sizable tax abatements to Chrysler and General Motors for plant construction projects that did not create as many jobs as promised or that cost taxpayers...