Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nixons of Altoona, Pennsylvania, appeared to be ideal citizens. Dennis Nixon, 41, is a successful businessman known for his generosity and consideration. His wife Lorie, 45, is a devoted mother. Their two-story brick home is comfortably middle class and better maintained than most of the other houses on the street. In the backyard are bright-colored swings and slides for their numerous children. The neighbors point out that the Nixon kids always wear safety helmets when they ride by on their new bicycles. And Dennis and Lorie Nixon pray for their kids. They pray all the time...
...months snapshots of a Democratic White House desperately grubbing for campaign dollars have focused on Asian Americans with strong business ties to their native lands. Now Republicans tell Time the G.O.P. has profited from an Asian money connection as well. Twice in two years Hong Kong businessman Ambrous Tung Young bailed out the party at crucial moments: first freeing up as much as $2 million in the final days before the G.O.P.'s 1994 sweep of Congress; then eating $500,000 in bad debts, rescuing Republicans in the last weeks of the 1996 contest. The conduit for the money...
...Chinese businessman came to prop up the G.O.P. is a story that began in 1993, right after Bill Clinton's election. Barbour had just taken over as G.O.P. chairman and created a think tank to generate new ideas. He called his group the National Policy Forum, and although its operations were two blocks and a few legal documents removed from Republican headquarters, it was just an extension of the party. Barbour was chairman of the forum; G.O.P. officials set its $4 million annual budget and coordinated fund raising. The forum circulated 600,000 questionnaires to identify the hot-button issues...
...JOSE: Oracle chairman Larry Ellison has dropped plans to buy Apple. The billionaire businessman began forming an investment group a month ago to consider an exploratory bid for the company while trying to scare away other potential suitors such as Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, a nephew of King Fahd who had begun buying up Apple shares. Apple stock finished down 11/16 on the news to close at $17. Industry insiders said Ellison's success in turning Oracle into a $4 billion software powerhouse, whose chief customers were corporations, would not translate to reviving Apple, whose shrinking band...
Arnault is usually depicted as a remote, chilly businessman, and in appearance he has a slightly academic rumple. But people in the design community tell another story, of dinners for 15 or so at the Arnaults' home in the elegant 16th arrondissement. There he relaxes and heads for the piano (favorite composer: Chopin). He calls himself an amateur pianist; he practices twice a week, still learning new pieces. His wife Helene is a concert pianist who has just finished a Canadian tour. "We once gave a concert together," Bernard recalls. "But once was enough--too much work." Mme. Arnault plays...