Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment candidates this year areSidel, Haywood Burns '62, vice provost for theCity College of New York, Jerome Grossman '38, aMassachusetts businessman and liberal activist,Ruth J. Messinger '62, a New York City Councilor,Peter D. Wood '64, a Duke University historyprofessor, and Consuela Washington, counsel to theHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce. They,along with 12 candidates nominated by theUniversity, are running for six vacant spots onthe Board...
Much smaller U.S. operators are also reaching for the skies. Robert Truax, a former Navy engineer, built a rocket in his Saratoga, Calif., backyard four years ago, and hopes to be the first private businessman to launch commercial cargo into space, possibly from Cape Canaveral. Entrepreneur George Koopman's Menlo Park, Calif., firm, American Rocket, is conducting flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. Like Truax, Koopman says the hardest part about starting a space-transport firm is raising enough money. Says he: "I'm still out there beating the bushes for funds...
...convoluted tale began in April 1985, when two of North's shadowy private partners, Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, hired a 163-ft. Danish ship, the Veralil, to ferry weapons to the contras. The ship was loaded with Soviet AK-47 guns in Poland, then sent to Portugal to pick up ammunition. Documents said the ship was headed for Guatemala, but she docked in Honduras, where the contras collected the weapons...
...speech by Coors drew widespread attention among Boston media organizations. Although representatives of at least two television stations, one radio station and two newspapers covered a protest of Coors outside the event, they could not enter the Science Center to hear the businessman speak...
...received about 100 letters. Out of 200 million people, that isn't very many. In 1983 I got thousands, maybe tens of thousands. If you look at the films after that seventh race, you'll see Dennis standing absolutely alone ((abandoned by the N.Y.Y.C.)), a small businessman from San Diego facing the music by himself, with tears running down my cheeks. People said they were touched. In defeat I found something I never knew in victory. They were proud of me. In essence, the Cup was freed...