Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appalled by the letters of Messrs. Webster and Kootnikoff [May 9]. The former eulogizes the Sandinista government's supposed popularity, and the latter claims that Nicaragua is a remarkably free society. As an American businessman who lived in Nicaragua for 15 years, I protest. If these readers are correct, why have the Sandinistas not opened the country to free elections? Why were business leaders thrown in jail for criticizing the government? Why was I advised by our State Department not to return to Nicaragua after testifying before a congressional subcommittee on the Nicaraguan situation? The Sandinistas are terrorists...
...Ingrams. They began writing the "Dear Bill" series soon after Mrs. Thatcher took office in 1979. The feature proved so popular that two years ago it was adapted into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis? The letters have also served to make the real-life Denis, 68, a semiretired businessman who does indeed play golf, a sympathetic figure in his difficult role as Britain's first First Gentleman...
...personal-computer industry was just getting started, a host of small software companies grew up. Many firms were started by one or two people with one computer, a good idea and some knowledge of computer programming. But as the market has expanded beyond the electronics hobbyist to the businessman, homeowner and student, software companies have discovered that they cannot survive on technology alone. They must develop skills in marketing, distribution and advertising. Says Edward Currie, president of Lifeboat Associates, a leading software publisher: "The software industry is turning into a cosmetics industry. In cosmetics, you worry about the box first...
...Wing Sang is a mortuary. Billie Williams, a black businessman, and Pharmacist Doug Kosobayashi, who is Japanese, own and run a flourishing Pasadena drugstore called Berry & Sweeney...
...anitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered this kind of crisis...