Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Daily News reported in yesterday's editions that Casey has told friends in recent days that he sent Meese a memo shortly after learning from New York businessman Roy Furmark on October 7 of the possible diversion of funds to the rebels fighting the leftist government of Nicaragua...
...players, the Saudis may have taken a major role, though they deny it. According to the New York Times, the Saudis and the U.S. began in 1983 to discuss supplying arms to the contras. Those involved included North, Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, a former Iranian businessman who had ties to the Saudis. At some point within the past year the contra supply effort apparently became intertwined with the Iranian arms deals...
Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) is a typical yuppie businessman whose idea of adventure is investing in municipal bonds. He meets Lulu (Melanie Griffith), a Bohemian in bangles, who offers him a ride to work...
...Besse was particularly chilling. A highly respected executive, Besse was beginning to improve loss-riddled Renault's fortunes. He had had little involvement in politics and avoided the public spotlight, preferring instead to spend his free time tending the roses at his country home southwest of Paris. The businessman was just steps from his town house in Paris' Montparnasse district last Monday night when two women emerged from the shadows. "It's good, let's go!" one of them shouted. As horrified | passersby looked on, she fired three shots from a 9-mm pistol at Besse. "Get lost," barked...
...since the former housewife took office nine months ago. Only days after the leftist trade-union leader Rolando Olalia and his driver were brutally murdered, a right-wing former National Assemblyman, David Puzon, was ambushed and shot to death in a hail of automatic-weapons fire. A leading Japanese businessman was kidnaped while returning home from a round of golf. A bomb exploded in a Manila department store, injuring 13 people. Finally, at week's end Ulbert Ulama Tugung, a prominent Muslim ally of the President's, was slain outside a hotel in the capital...