Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of a 1904 the been controlled largely by a cartel known as General Funerals. Entrepreneur Michel Leclerc thinks that is unfair. Says the businessman: "A bride can choose her wedding dress anywhere she pleases. We should be able to choose our coffins anywhere we please as well...
...Secretary of State for External Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, Turner went a long way toward unifying the party and reinforcing the Liberals' traditionally strong position in Quebec. Turner's first task is to get his party re-elected over the Progressive Conservative Party led by Businessman Brian Mulroney. Elections could be called as early...
...BUSINESSMAN by Thomas M. Disch Harper & Row; 292 pages...
Subtitled A Tale of Terror, this novel will horrify only those who believe that the gruesome should not also be funny. The macabre begins when Bob Glandier, a repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind...
...latest Shamie charge is that Richardson is avoiding debates because he is scared of facing the garrulous businessman. A lot of these accusations and charges are not worthy of a response." Richardson press secretary David Gilroy said last week...