Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Social committee members say that the backer, businessman James Adler, can expect to gross about $400,000 from tickets, which would probably be sold to area college students. The details of the concert--which would likely be held in Harvard Stadium--will be worked out with University officials if they approve it, social committee members said...
...containing the plot, and twelve hours to unravel the mystery. If the murderer is not found in the allotted time, a character named Chief Inspector Klutz takes the player off the case. The program shuts down automatically and must be replayed from the beginning. As Deadline opens, a wealthy businessman has been found dead in the library of his mansion from a mysterious drug overdose. The player, who takes the role of inspector, has been called in to investigate. He types commands into the computer, and the machine responds with descriptions of people and places and snatches of dialogue that...
...dusted off and flung into full public view. But in Ginny Foat's case it was all too real, and far worse. Along with revelations about her barmaid-and-battered-wife past, Louisiana police dredged up a warrant for the robbery and murder of an Argentine businessman near New Orleans 18 years...
...Peking municipal government ordered its employees to shave off their mustaches. The capital's leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders and 16 pornographic tapes, then charged viewers $5 admission (about four days' wages for the average urban worker...
Enough cloak-and-dagger skulduggery? Wait, there may be more. Harper is being held without bail for a hearing Oct. 27. If convicted of espionage, he faces life imprisonment. If Harper talks some more, the big question is what he might say about William B. Hugle, an engineer-businessman in his late 50s who founded several Silicon Valley electronics firms...