Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...management style, as well as her insensitivity to the atmosphere of nepotism created by the fact that her brother-in-law and sister held bureau jobs, as did her husband, Officer Bruce Gary Harrington. The commission questioned the friendliness the chief and her husband had shown to a Portland businessman being investigated in a cocaine probe; it recommended a 25-day suspension of Gary Harrington. Penny Harrington, who declared herself "shocked" by the findings, was almost certainly made more vulnerable by the mayor's own troubles: Clark is the target of a recall effort...
...mythical audience for the Broadway musical in its heyday was the tired businessman looking for a little mindless entertainment. That kind of theatergoer has often been intimidated by Sondheim's literacy, acidity, unpredictability and aspiration. Thus Sondheim's admirers hope that Into the Woods will at last give him a blockbuster mainstream hit. However the show fares, Sondheim is once again rejuvenating a too often tired and mindless format. And the best news for the future of the musical is that Sondheim can rightly claim that, in the title phrase of a bawdy anthem he wrote for the movie...
...international businessman joined two renowned mathematicians and one of the nation's leading social scientists yesterday to discuss how massive improvements in technology will influence the development of the world's nations...
KASHANI'S BACKGROUND IS almost as colorful as he is. Born in Tehran to a wealthy Iranian landholding and merchant family, Kashani was brought to the United States when his father, a developer and international businessman, decided to settle in La Jolla, California. Though his family naturally had a strong interest in foreign affairs, Kashani describes rest of the family as politically apathetic...
Thus began Ueberroth's meteoric rise to the forefront of the nation's consciousness. The former owner of a travel company, he is a businessman turned hero--the CEO who draws upon the traditional values of hard work and clean living. And he has assumed his place alongside other national figures with stunning swiftness...