Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here in Havana, Cubans are of very mixed minds about the Pope's visit. "So many people do not even know who the Pope is," says Enrique Lopez Oliva, a professor of religious history at the University of Havana. Is he a President, a businessman? Is Fidel paying him to come? Even many Catholics are ignorant of the papal biography and doctrinal bent. In a country where abortion ends roughly 40% of all pregnancies and copulation begins in early adolescence, Cubans will be shocked by John Paul II's stern views on sex. His reverence for the family will seem...
...that Japan is a place where doctors often withhold information from their patients, instead telling family members about a serious illness. Corporations customarily withhold potentially damaging information from their shareholders. Kawai points out that the trait helped create the stereotype of the Japanese businessman who says yes when he means...
...perfect bomb. Prosecutors describe the entries as nothing less than a long, detailed confession to every bomb the Unabomber sent. Such entries as "I intend to start killing people" and "I came back to the Chicago area...so that I could more safely attempt to murder a scientist, businessman, or the like" show why prosecutors believe Kaczynski deserves to be executed...
Christopher Kennedy, 34, has bucked two second-generation Kennedy trends, becoming a businessman and a Midwesterner. Today he helps run the Merchandise Mart, the Kennedys' downtown-Chicago trade center started by grandfather Joe. Max Kennedy, 32, a University of Virginia law school graduate, was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia for three years. Last fall he began business school at UCLA. Douglas Kennedy, 30, has switched over to what some Kennedys must consider the Other Side. He is a New York City-based reporter for the Fox News Channel. Youngest child Rory Kennedy, 29, is a documentary filmmaker...
...grown into a billion-dollar ransom industry. Americans are by no means exempt. On Dec. 15, Peter John Zarate, 40, a real estate executive and father of four living in Mexico City, was shot and killed by taxi pirates in the posh Polanco neighborhood. Just days before, another U.S. businessman was savagely beaten after stepping into a taxi outside the Sheraton Hotel, next door to the U.S. embassy. A week earlier the U.S. manager of an Acapulco hotel was kidnapped by men wearing police uniforms...