Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first signs are small, puzzling and all too easy to dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife and her increasing tendency to garble phone messages. For Eleanor Zimmerlein, an Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn...
Harvard officials forged the agreement in cooperation with several Japanese educators and businessman, working through the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science--a quasi-governmental agency...
Your cover story [June 6] is excellent but hard for me to relate to. I am an unemployed college teacher and have been such for the past eight months. The first example in your article is that of a managerial-class businessman who is working and has job-related difficulties. That man doesn't know how lucky he is. You seem to concentrate on those who are able to afford anxiety. What about the rest of us? For those of us who are poor and out of work, corporate stress is a luxury...
...promotion and marketing. He started his own ad agency at 28 before becoming president of the Good Humor ice cream company and later a top executive at Colgate-Palmolive. In 1969 he won an executive-suite power struggle to become chief of the diversified empire put together by California Businessman Norton Simon, 76, who now owns only a token interest in the firm...
Twilight Zone: The Movie burst into the third dimension of real life and death last July, when Actor Vic Morrow and two children were killed when a helicopter crashed during the filming of their segment. Morrow plays a bigoted businessman who learns the True Meaning of Racial Injustice when transported to Nazi-occupied France, a Klan lynching and a G.I. patrol in Viet Nam. Landis, who also contributes the engaging prologue to Twilight Zone, would have been well advised to junk his screechy screed. Even with the helicopter sequence mercifully cut, the story hardly looks worth shooting, let alone dying...