Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another prominent local businessman was more skeptical "I'd like to feel very optimistic, yet I don't," said Frank N. Cardullo, owner of the Wursthaus and Cardullo's added that Charles Square establishment's would have to be "extremely expensive" to meet their high overheads.CrimsonDavid S. HilzenrathMiss Teen Massachusetts rides through the Square in an open limousine during a parade celebrating the grand opening of the $75 million Charles Square hotel condominium-office-retail complex. Despite cloudy skies and gusting winds, hundreds of Cantabridgians, including House Speaker Thomas P O' Nell Jr., lined the streets of Cambridge to watch...
...Businessman J. Peter Grace first recommended the improved hearing devices to Reagan. The new aids, made by Starkey Labs Inc., the Minneapolis manufacturer of his old aid, are half-inch-long devices called intracanal aids, meaning that they go inside the ear canal. The battery-operated devices are scheduled to go on the market next month at a retail cost of $900 to $1,100. Dr. John William House, the President's ear doctor, prescribed the second aid to balance Reagan's hearing by slightly increasing the volume level in his left ear. Reagan's right ear, House says...
...White House, Donovan told Chief of Staff Donald Regan that he wanted to devote all his time and energy to his defense and to spare the Administration further embarrassment. "The President has been far too generous," Donovan said. Indeed, since Donovan's Senate confirmation hearings in 1981, when the businessman was accused of having ties with organized crime but was not indicted, Reagan has voiced unwavering support for his Cabinet member. In a ten-minute Oval Office meeting that a presidential aide described as "emotional but not teary," Donovan told Reagan of his decision to step down. White House officials...
...importance to history: "As far as that goes, it's enough for me that the flags are flying in Boston Garden." Neither expected to possess his sport for long or forever. "When I finish," says Gretzky, "I'll walk away from it totally, be my own person, my own businessman." This plan amuses Gretzky's friend Howe, who lingered 32 pro seasons and is a Hartford Whalers' executive now. The way Bird looks at it, "When it's all over with, I'll just go off and be glad. At the end of every season, when...
...drug trade. In Miami last week, DEA agents arrested Norman Saunders, Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British protectorate of tiny islands north of Haiti. Arrested along with him were his Minister of Commerce and Development, a member of the islands' legislature, and a French-Canadian businessman who lives in the Bahamas. Saunders, accompanied by the others, allegedly accepted $50,000 from undercover agents as down payment for providing a safe stopover for a plane carrying drugs from South America to Florida. If convicted the politicians face up to 30 years in prison...