Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like an American businessman trying to sell widgets in Japan, Richard Gephardt knows about the frustrations of unequal competition. After all, the little known Missouri Congressman is trying to take on Gary Hart, the Sony of Democratic politics. But Gephardt thinks he has found the lever to open up the 1988 political market: the $170 billion trade deficit and America's declining competitiveness in world commerce...
WASHINGTON--Congressional investigators, relying on Swiss bank records and other material provided by businessman Albert Hakim, have confirmed the diversion of more than $1 million in Iranian arms sale profits to Contras rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, sources said late Thursday...
Professor Philip J. Stone III, Chung's faculty advisor for Organizational Studies, says that this young businessman is generally on time and well-prepared for tutorial. But Stone adds, from time to time he comes into class late after meeting with airline representatives in New York. "James has had experience running a company in high school so it isn't really a problem for him," said Stone...
While the Finance Minister did not criticize U.S. lenders, many Brazilians did. Said Senator Severo Gomes, a member of the ruling party: "There can be no attitude of flexibility toward the banks." Said Aldo Lorenzetti, a Sao Paulo-based businessman: "Each side is baring its teeth and sharpening its claws to get the best possible result in the negotiations...
...would like to see Robert Anderson, his Treasury Secretary, succeed him as < President. "Boy, I'd like to fight for him in 1960!" Eisenhower said. Anderson, who had also served as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, never ran for office. He became a businessman, an unofficial diplomatic envoy for President Johnson and chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty for President Nixon. Last week Anderson, 76, was again in the limelight, but for a different reason. He pleaded guilty to felony charges of tax evasion and illegal banking operations...