Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counts among his close friends Gregory Peck, Don Rickles, Henry Kissinger and former President Gerald Ford. Like many pals, Ford has invested in Davis' oil deals over the years. Says Ford: "You look at Marvin, and he looks like a tough, mean guy -- and he is a tough businessman. But on a personal side, he's a warm person, a nice guy to be with...
...smoke and fire were heavy at one end of this upside-down cabin section, but the breakup opened a wide escape avenue at the other end. "I looked for where the emergency exit used to be," said David Landsberger, a New Jersey businessman who had been in Seat 13B. "But it wasn't there. Then I looked toward the front of the plane, and I saw daylight. Then I saw green stuff beyond the mud, and when I got out I found myself in a cornfield...
...Atlanta-based businessman denies any such intentions. He told a Bozeman town meeting last week that he would sell rights to hunt elk on his property and plans to replace the ranch's 3,000 head of cattle with buffalo, which produce low-cholesterol meat. But Turner refuses to allow campers to cross his land. Says he: "I bought the place because I wanted to get away from people. We live in an increasingly overcrowded world, and I'm becoming a hermit...
...Argentina the post of Economic Minister has become almost as star-crossed as the hyperinflated economy. The previous officeholder, Miguel Roig, 68, died July 14, just six days after he joined the Cabinet of incoming President Carlos Saul Menem. Roig's successor, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, 60, had been on the job only three days last week when newspaper reports disclosed that a judge in Venezuela had put out a warrant for his arrest in connection with a $6 billion trade-fraud scheme...
...estimated. That's the number the club needed to break 1 million in attendance, a milestone that came later in previous seasons. Later the gate was announced: 26,244. Though the Rangers < were losing a close game, the new owner beamed. "I like selling tickets," says Bush the businessman. "There are a lot of parallels between baseball and politics," says Bush, the once and future politician...