Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Businessman Mike Lenz recalled that on the day before the bombing, he looked on as his pregnant wife had a sonogram. Lenz saw that the baby was a boy and gave him a name on the spot--Michael James Lenz III. Lenz's wife and the child she was carrying were both killed the next day. "In one fell swoop, I went from being a husband and a daddy to realizing it was all gone," he said. "There was a point when I actually stuck a pistol in my mouth." Policeman Alan Propkop found a wounded baby with a brick...
...worked for Gore in the 1980s and became the assistant Energy Department secretary in charge of its multibillion-dollar nuclear-waste cleanup program. From where he stood between Haney and Grumbly, Knight came up with a fruitful arrangement: he began lobbying the Gore appointee on behalf of the businessman he was soliciting for Gore campaign cash...
...Roderick Bell, an Ohio state dropout turned businessman, bought two trucks as a tax write-off. Today Bell's firm, Texas American Express, shelters mainly profit. Sales are heading toward $12 million, and 80 freight trucks--whose colors range from salmon to emerald green to pink because employees can pick the shades they please--ply the roads from its modest base in Dallas to the Northeast and the West Coast. Bell is a success--and he has to work harder than ever to stay that...
...always acutely aware of his own worth," says Gates, who is the chair of Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies. "He is the only person of this generation, no, he is the only person period, who has been able to be a great musician and a great businessman...
...summer was the only real time I spent with my father. The rest of the year he was occupied with his New York City department store, Avedon's Fifth Avenue. Before my father became a businessman, though, he was a teacher. In the summer of 1931, at the beach, he opened my eyes to the wonder of photography...