Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walsh announced he planned to ask a court Monday, for the first time in his investigation, to delay a congressional grant of immunity to businessman Albert Hakim for the legal limit of 20 days...
...wealthy Republican businessman who served as Governor from 1979 to 1983, Clements regained the office last November from Democrat Mark White, partly by accusing him of duplicity. As chairman of the board of governors of Southern Methodist University, a post he gave up when he took office in Austin, Clements assailed the S.M.U. system for permitting wealthy boosters to pay football players to perform for the Dallas school. Such practices brought the school seven citations from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for violating its rules...
...Toner are dressed in green sweaters, khaki slacks, and brown shoes. Both speak in a believable Irish brogue. Alone in the bedroom, the two help each other imagine what existence will be like living in Philadelphia with "their" aunt. First, Gar is a star soccer player, then a businessman on his way to becoming president of a major corporation. Next, he's a famous violinist; later he's a powerful U. S. Senator...
...next little period was pretty routine. They lived near Bordeaux. Janis free-lanced articles. Michel started his firm. Sean was born in 1979, the year his father began to chafe. "I was 90% businessman. I was wearing a mask all the time." He would project himself as a man of the masses when dealing with socialist clients, could quickly affect a monied mien for the benefit of the capitalists, and felt like a fraud. It was also in 1979 that the couple bought the boat, for about $35,000, and began to lay plans...
...survey released last month by Arizona Pollster Earl de Berge, 44% rated Mecham's performance as "poor" or "very poor." Mecham professes to be unconcerned about criticism, but he may find it harder to brush off Ed Buck. A Phoenix businessman, Buck launched a recall campaign in January and distributed more than 25,000 MECHAM FOR EX-GOVERNOR bumper stickers. "He is a polarizing, divisive leader," Buck contends. Under state law, Buck must wait four more months before starting to collect the 216,746 signatures necessary to force a re-election. "I don't know who is paying him," Mecham...