Word: businessman
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When Paul Thayer became Deputy Secretary of Defense a year ago, he brought a hard-nosed businessman's approach to the Pentagon bureaucracy. As chairman of both the LTV Corp., a Dallas-based energy, steel and aerospace conglomerate, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he had complained about wasteful Government spending, including the military's. His new job as No. 2 at the Pentagon, with particular responsibility for weapons procurement, gave Thayer the chance to use his private-sector savvy to pare public-sector...
...Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant group. More adverse publicity for the Administration could be generated by Senate confirmation of the first Ambassador to the Vatican. He is likely to be Reagan's current personal representative, William Wilson, 69, a Catholic convert, California businessman and Reagan intimate...
...National: Coriolanus, Animal Farm as a musical and, possibly, another play from Peter Shaffer. (Hall staged Amadeus in both London and New York.) Meantime, he is happy to see the three auditoriums in the National complex filled to 80% of capacity. "I've always been a businessman as well as trying to be an artist. And I do love running things." With his $71,000-a-year contract at the National renewed for five years, Sir Peter seems destined to remain a lively British monument. Just like Nelson's Column. -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Mary Cronin/London
...added that he needed more time to consider logistical matters. Those include security and facilities use, and financial arrangements. For instance, Epps called the financial proposal of the concert's backer, businessman James Adler, "quite imprecise...
What we glean of a family history suggests an atmosphere of caprice and superfluity conducive to the formation of a surrealist temperament. Bunuel's father, a successful businessman whom Bunuel describes as a man of extreme leisure ("the only thing my father would carry in the street was his elegantly wrapped jar of caviar"), seems to have had a surrealist's sense of humor. Bunuel grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-10 balconies and took up the entire second floor of the building." While this spawning ground...