Word: businessman
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...future of money: Thumbprint identification. It?s real, and it?s catching on all over the country. Banks in all 50 states have some version of the system, and may start requiring you to use it. Which is one of the reasons why Peter Taussig, a California businessman, is taking his bank to court. ?I was not going to give them fingerprints,? said Taussig Monday. ?Nor was I going to give a saliva sample or a hair sample or a urine sample...
Richard Yan is not merely a new breed of mainland Chinese businessman--he's a member of the very first class, and one of its rising stars. His Richina Group, which didn't exist four years ago, has revenues of $270 million and 1,850 employees making leather, running a jazzy Beijing aquarium and turning out computer magazines. Yan, 34, is the driving force, and his megawattage borders on the nuclear. He works 100-hour weeks, flies only coach on business trips and flops on friends' couches to cut expenses...
...have been hastened by his heated public squabble with Berezovsky. After an exchange of personal attacks in press interviews, Berezovsky declared that Chubais' days in government were numbered. The oligarchs followed through, it seems, using their access to the Kremlin's front office. One recent morning, a prominent Moscow businessman says, a report "was placed on the President's desk"--obviously by one of Yeltsin's top aides--and Yeltsin actually read it. The memo warned that Chubais' rosy reports on the economy and payment of salaries to state employees were not only inaccurate but were "disinformation." Says the businessman...
...particular fascination for her, though such probes rarely yield anything conclusive. The impetus this time is a Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal item saying Department of Justice prosecutors had recommended indicting former Republican National Committee chairman HALEY BARBOUR in connection with his solicitation of funds from an overseas businessman. The spate of probes to track down loose lips in the halls of Justice--including one to find the source of a Washington Post story from last year about intelligence findings on the Chinese plan to influence the 1996 elections--"have changed the whole atmosphere around here," says a senior Justice...
...course, the movies started driving toward all this long before the Clintons came along. In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury. A newspaper magnate and political kingmaker, Lansbury decides to push Tracy into a presidential run. That means getting his estranged wife, played by Katharine Hepburn, to agree to act the contented spouse on the campaign trail...