Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September 1983, the Chinese attempted their boldest gambit: either an agreement would be reached by September 1984, they insisted, or they would unilaterally announce their own plans for the community. Almost immediately, the Hong Kong dollar plunged. That crisis may, ironically, have rescued the talks. As one Chinese businessman points out: "In a month when the U.S. dollar rose from six Hong Kong dollars to 7.75, the Bank of China was the biggest loser...
...businessmen have already surreptitiously sent their funds and families abroad. And in response to a poll conducted by one Chinese-language newspaper, nearly 80% of the colony's residents admitted to doubts and reservations about their future freedom. "Hong Kong as it is is finished," pronounced a Chinese businessman with close ties to Peking. "Its ability to be profitable is there only because of present policies. When sovereign ty by the Chinese is proclaimed, these policies will have to be changed...
...film's weakest point, however, lies in the ironies it attempts to convey. The pillars of the community who double as klansmen, the ignorant white businessman who is outsmarted by the uneducated black are characters already made familiar in such portrayals of the South as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Roots". Nonetheless, some of the contrasts--and this is indeed a film of deftly edited contrapuntals--are at times quite effective and convey the juxtaposition of cruelty, with suprising tenderness that is at the heart of the southern tradition...
...Because of Ferraro's political prominence, the affair cost the Zaccaros personally several hundred thousand dollars and is reported to have had a negative effect on their real estate business. Not surprisingly, businessmen who refuse to bear such scrutiny are being deterred from entering government service. Finding a successful businessman who has never "stretched" a bit on a tax form could keep one busy until the next election...
...believe I represent a new emerging Massachusetts," said Shamie, a millionaire businessman who won 38 percent of the vote in a challenge to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) two years...