Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dougherty contacts CIA authorities about Jay, but it turns out they already know part of the story. A mole in Polish intelligence has told them about the sale of Minuteman secrets by "an American businessman." The CIA puts questions to Jay through Attorney Dougherty and receives answers that dovetail with the mole's account. Following up clues provided by the mole and unwittingly corroborated by Dougherty, the FBI comes up with a name for Jay: James Durward Harper...
...group of citizens fed up with the increasing number of needless deaths. In 1979 alone, 10,738 people were murdered with handguns in the United States. Two of those victims were from Morton Grove, teenage girls shot to death in a wooded area of the community. When a local businessman announced plans to open a gun shop in the town two years after those killings, the Trustees acted swiftly. The result was the strongest anti-gun law ever passed in the United States...
Knoxville, Tenn., Businessman Doug Sheley, 36, saw opportunity in the gap between fitness and fast food in 1978, when he owned 18 Wendy's restaurants and a share in a health club. Recalls Sheley: "Every time I walked into the club, somebody would say, 'How many calories in your Frosty, Doug?' " Sheley, a former small-college football player who had begun to put on some extra padding, decided that America needed a kind of McHealth food. Three years later, he opened the first D'Lites restaurant, his prototype for a chain serving familiar road food with...
...Personally, I like raspberry swirl. It's a little bit more expensive, but worth it!" exclaimed an upper-middle-class businessman...
...Coubertin, a French idealist whose practical side was underrated, revived the Olympics in 1896 in the name of international amity but with a plea for fiscal sanity that is near to the heart of Peter Ueberroth, 46, the Olympian Cash McCall. For, in a way, this San Fernando Valley businessman-sportsman is starting the Games all over again too. "They must be kept more purely athletic," as the baron said, "more dignified, more discreet and more in accordance with the classic artistic requirements. The Games must be more intimate and, above all, the Games must be less expensive...