Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty mundane revolution, but founder Pierre Schwob has his eyes on a bigger prize: telephone service. As it gets easier to make phone calls over the Internet (something Schwob expects within the next 12 months), Homegate will become a realistic alternative to long-distance phone service. That Alaskan businessman will be able to connect to the Jakarta Net gateway and "call up" any number around the world at the 10[cents] a minute rate. A laptop and a modem will allow anyone to bypass the expensive (and difficult) international phone system, offering millions in savings. Homegate has already signed...
...full crush. At Dior, house of the very hot designer John Galliano, the props indicated that the young maestro had been thinking hard about a dreamland Orient. As the crowds tripped around the delicate bridge to nowhere on their way to find or steal seats, one conservatively dressed businessman waited quietly in the shadows. Galliano may get the attention, but, murmured Bernard Arnault, "I have...
...change soon; his very young Bazar line is breaking into the black. Lacroix, whose atelier is the only one Arnault started from scratch, is a sharp observer of his boss: "He needs to be convinced in his eye and his mind--it is essential." As to Arnault the businessman, Lacroix echoes the common opinion: "He loves the new, he loves to astonish and to be first with something. If it means clearing the land to make a new garden, then he'll chop away. And he loves a fight...
...pattern has become familiar: every week now, it seems, we meet another businessman who wanted a favor from the White House and was willing to pay for it. And every week we learn more about a White House willing to place politics before policy. Just when it began to look as if the scandal was mainly about Chinese influence peddling, it turns out that all kinds of hustlers could descend on the White House like gamblers to Vegas, feeling lucky. It didn't matter if the player was a global wheeler-dealer like Tamraz, whom Interpol wanted to question...
...officer who was Tamraz's contact in the clandestine Operations Directorate in December 1995, though Fowler denies making any calls. Meanwhile, intelligence officials told TIME that CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz is investigating whether the officer, at Tamraz's urging, telephoned Fowler in October to confirm that the businessman had helped the agency in the past with information on the Middle East. If that was the case, it would represent a major breach in CIA security regulations, which bar officers from revealing to any outsiders that someone is helping the agency. Intelligence officials also say Tamraz had hired former...