Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brisk October morning last year, Henry Liu, 52, a businessman and part-time journalist, was shot dead by Asian gunmen outside his home in Daly City, Calif. Liu's widow suspected that the murder was politically motivated. Under the pen name of Chiang Nam (River South), Liu had written books and articles that assailed Taiwan. "It was a terrorist killing," said Jerome Garchik, Mrs. Liu's lawyer. "Henry Liu was killed to silence his work and also to intimidate Chinese living in America." U.S. officials say that Liu had apparently acted at various times as an agent or informant...
...incidents in his life: a previous mugging, and his father's trial on a morals charge. Goetz was attacked by a mugger in 1981 and thought his assailant had escaped justice. Actually the man served a jail term of four months. When Goetz was 13, his father, a wealthy businessman in Rhinebeck, N.Y., was convicted of sexually molesting two 15-year-old boys. After an appeal, the father pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, disorderly conduct. "One can hypothesize that the trauma his father sustained made him feel very helpless, motivated him to make sure that another such situation would...
Robert R. Barker '36, a Manhattan businessman and member of the executive committee: "I think it's--it's gonna sound corny--the greatest university in the world . . . Also, three of my four young people have gone there, and I know first hand how good...
Douglas Dillon '31, a Manhattan businessman and member of the executive committee: "The campaign has been remarkable from the beginning because it clearly addresses the needs of the future, and does so in a manner that points the way for higher education over the rest of this century. There's no glitter, nothing extra about this drive. It's directed at achieving goals that benefit the most essential aspects of Harvard's mission...
...recent trip to Japan, American Businessman Bruce Neff unwittingly broke a key cultural rule. The Data General manager abruptly chopped an order he had placed with a Japanese firm by one-third. "It was an ordinary procedure that in the U.S. would have taken 15 minutes," he recalled. But the Japanese were shocked and threatened by the unexpected cutback, and launched into negotiations with Neff that dragged on for three days...