Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even more blatantly than other votes have been altered in the past. If that happened, they warned darkly, Aquino supporters by the tens of thousands would take to the streets. The Philippines, said Jose ("Peping") Cojuangco, Aquino's campaign manager, was "a powder keg." Agreed Jaime Ongpin, a wealthy businessman and key Aquino campaign adviser: "I have never felt more uncertain about the future than...
...There's no sense worrying about what you have no control over. I just hope it keeps getting bigger and bigger, like New York City. I'm a businessman, true, but I'm a native, so I can see things on both sides of the fence. If a local person doesn't like it, I can understand that, but money talks." A salesclerk for an outlet comes in for a soda, and Wagner asks her how's business. Oh, she says, "it's terribly busy," and Wagner says, "God bless America...
More important, Tisch is a businessman of legendary stature. He and his brother Preston, who is president of Loews, started in 1946 by borrowing money from their parents to buy a single resort hotel, called Laurel-in-the-Pines, in Lakewood, N.J. By 1955 they had twelve hotels, and in 1960 they hit the big time by buying control of Loews Theaters. After a quarter-century of further growth and acquisitions, including takeovers of CNA Insurance and Lorillard Tobacco, the Tisches run a company with assets of more than $12.5 billion. The brothers have amassed personal fortunes that total...
...simple enough: parents vacate, boy stays home, boy meets prostitute, boy and prostitute open brothel in the folk's house, boy loses girl, boy loses furniture (prostitute played by daughter of noted conservative TV talkshow host). It's yer basic bare bones plot. While Joel calls himself a businessman, he's really just the businessman's Girl Friday, and the businessman's the girl in the world's oldest profession...
...week, Barletta complained that forces within his governing coalition and in Panama's powerful, 15,000-member National Defense Forces "consider that they can no longer work with my presidency." With that, he announced that he was resigning. He was succeeded by First Vice President Eric Arturo Delvalle, a businessman with little political experience...