Word: businessman
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...most productive figure in history is the individual trying to improve his status. Whether he is an Asian peasant tilling his land or an American businessman building a company, the profit incentive is a powerful force. Capitalism is not a neat, orderly system. The street vendors of Lima or Peking or New York City, some basic examples of capitalism, are more chaotic than the orderly but often empty stores in so many socialist states. Capitalism's unruliness means that it will always be subject to swings of boom and bust. The system, however, presents the constant opportunity for profit...
Moreover, some of the qualities that Americans love in Iacocca the gruff, can-do businessman might work against Iacocca the presidential candidate. Could a hard-driving corporate titan, accustomed to speaking his mind and having his way, cope with the subtleties and compromises of American realpolitik? The draft-Iacocca boosters may underestimate the depth of his lifelong love affair with the auto business. He adores the nuts and bolts of it, the marketing strategies, the finite way in which success (or failure) is easily measured. With Chrysler on the rebound, Iacocca harbors impossible dreams of driving his company past Ford...
Late last week Washington's foreign policy community was abuzz with reports that Robert Brown, 51, a black businessman from North Carolina, would be named Ambassador to Pretoria. "For the first time in U.S.-South Africa relations, a black is being given serious consideration for the post," said a Washington- based South Africa specialist. The other top candidate is Richard Viets, a career diplomat and former Ambassador to Tanzania and Jordan...
With such difficult problems facing the larger region, Shultz chose an itinerary that was likely to accentuate the positive side of U.S. dealings in the Pacific rim. He selected allies who tend to be receptive to his "businessman's diplomacy," and whose policies reflect his favorite themes: rising democracy, a comeback for capitalism and free trade. Thus the Secretary flew first to Hong Kong, a bastion of free enterprise on the tip of China, and ended his trip with a stopover in Palau, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific that voted in February to become semi-independent while granting...
...cost Ed Zschau $3.2 million, but he did it. Starting from near obscurity and facing a dozen rivals, the two-term Congressman won California's Republican Senate nomination last week with a 37% plurality. The Silicon Valley businessman spent $2 million on advertising, much of it devoted to teaching voters how to pronounce his name (like the first syllable in shower). In a display of post-primary solidarity, Zschau and his six key competitors sat down after his victory for a unity lunch in Los Angeles, where he discussed strategy against three-term Democratic Incumbent Alan Cranston...