Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miami's famous Liberty City riots of 1980 had begun for similar reasons. Black businessman Arthur McDuffie had been beaten to death by five white policemen who stopped him for a traffic violation. When the officers were acquitted by an all-white jury, the disturbances began...
...Businessman Arthur Miller was beaten to death by 16 policemen. Miller's brother, Samuel, was fighting with two officers who sought to arrest him for driving without a license in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Arthur Miller joined the battle, and more police were summoned. Some 16 officers "swarmed" Miller, who died of "pressure applied to throat." A series of demonstrations followed, one of which drew 2000 participants. A grand jury acquitted all 16 officers, saying there was no evidence of brutality in the case...
...personal fortune at the nation's expense." Kickbacks are the order of the day, with the President's cronies controlling significant slices of the economy. "It's the greed of a handful at the top that keeps this country in an economic mess," says one Belgian businessman. Complains one of Zaïre's former financial advisers: "We had great hopes, but they are all gone. It is a country that makes people dream and then makes them go crazy...
...year a stunning winner, her iron-lady image polished to a high luster abroad, her stature as a political leader restored at home. It was a year that, thanks to a war 8,000 miles away, she will mark as a turning point in her fortunes. As a British businessman puts it: "In 1982 Prime Minister Thatcher restored our national pride." Her rating in the polls is up to 44%, and many Britons confidently predict that she would win an election handily if she chose to call...
...only thing that has evaporated faster than the water supply in Mexico's major food-producing states of Chihuahua and Sonora is Mexican confidence in the future. Says a U.S. businessman in Mexico City: "People are scared and confused. There is no confidence left in the government, and people are going to give De la Madrid only so long to prove he can be trusted. If there is no sign of change in a few months, a lot of Mexicans are just going to leave the country." Many of them have already done the next best thing: they have...