Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post of Minister of Agriculture. Aquino repaid debts to political independents who strongly supported her during the bitterly contested election. Among them: Jaime Ongpin, 47, the chairman of the Benguet Mining Corp. and one of her main campaign strategists, who was named Finance Minister, and Jose Concepcion, 54, a businessman and head of the National Movement for Free Elections, a citizens' watchdog group, who became Minister of Trade and Industry...
When scandals over weapons procurement began to shake public support for the President's defense buildup, the White House created a commission last summer to recommend management reforms. But it soon became clear that the commission, chaired by David Packard, multimillionaire businessman (Hewlett- Packard) and former Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Administration, would affirm that billions of defense dollars had in fact been wasted...
Zafir Masri, 44, obviously suspected nothing as he strolled from his home to the municipal offices in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. Then, as the prominent Palestinian moderate and mayor stopped to chat with a local businessman, murder struck. At least one assassin walked up behind Masri and shot him three times in the back with a 7.65-mm pistol. Two of the bullets lodged in his heart. The unidentified hitman fled in the direction of the town's central market-place. Masri died shortly afterward...
Although a three-page spread on the candidate in this week's People Magazine can't hurt, Roosevelt is relying on an ad campaign that bills him as businessman Joseph P. Kennedy II's chief opponent...
...games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...