Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with nostalgia, but he seriously emphasizes the fundamental importance of the job: "When one thinks of this program, it is with the hope that when the visitor returns to his own country, it is with a better understanding of ours." He notes that many of the visiting leaders and businessman are politically unpopular, and students sometimes protest their arrival. Anderson strongly advocates the visitor's rights: "The University is a place where freedom of expression should be one of our greatest priorities. We should allow anyone to visit Harvard whenever Harvard wishes to see that person--and this does...
...Anderson was an established, but retired businessman, a talented and successful yacht designer, and a well-rounded person with a strong and able mind, but without a major time commitment to keep him active. He felt a renewed dedication to his alma mater, so he called one of his friends--a Harvard fellow--to see if he could do anything with the University. At that point, the current University Marshal was stepping down. The fellow asked Anderson if he had travelled much. Anderson had gone around the world twice, visiting a number of smaller countries, and with that requirement filled...
California judge and loyal Reagan staffman; Director of Central Intelligence William Casey is a seasoned businessman and an energetic Republican campaigner; Caspar Weinberger does not have the background in defense policy to match his zealous commitment to the goal of rearming America (which is one reason why he has virtually turned over the Pentagon's arms-control portfolio to Perle); if confirmed, Kenneth Adelman, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience...
...apparent candor of his speakers carries Gray's accounts of these interviews past Western preconceptions for a true "insider's view." In one of many long discussions with Sultana, a California-educated princess about to marry a Saudi businessman, Gray learns why women in Saudi Arabia accept wearing full-length veils and submitting to the wills of their husbands and fathers...
Bill Johnson, 18, cast the first vote of his life for the Republican candidate, businessman Bernard Epton, wearing a green Epton t-shirt, a "Democrats for Epton" badge, and one of the city's ubiquitous "Bigots for Bernie" buttons. He whispered his case against Washington in a corner of the Epton election night headquarters...