Word: businessman
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...Then how about Arnold Schwarzenegger?" asks the unflappable Eugene. The Toronto-born businessman is something of an eccentric. He dabbled in the video-game business (his biggest hit: an arcade game called Ooze) but left the industry deciding it had "too much gratuitous violence." The idea of gambling over the Internet came to him last year in a moment he describes as an epiphany. According to Eugene, he was "chosen" to open the first gambling den on the electronic frontier. He is convinced that in another life he was the founder of New York City's famous Stork Club...
TIME's Burke reports that Antonio Di Pietro, a legendary Italian prosecutor who has spearheaded "Clean Hands," is under investigation himself. Prosecutors in the northern city of Brescia are looking into a $75,000 loan he received from a businessman who was later implicated in the investigation. Of Di Pietro, once the most popular man in Italy, a graduate student in Rome told Burke: "He was the only person in Italy I believed...
MARION BARRY In trouble again as feds check his ties to a local businessman...
Cole found that Fargoans do their homework. "Before meeting me," she says, "one businessman insisted on doing a computer data-base search of all the articles I ever wrote." But to Cole, once a "jaded, guarded New Yorker," Midwestern charm has proved contagious; she felt at ease with her subjects. In turn, they readily offered clues of the coming budget cuts to TIME's Fargo north decoder...
...fact, it's a dispute over bonuses that caused the recent walkout. Salomon's principal owner, Warren Buffett, dared to break with tradition and challenge the pay system, the way baseball owners have. Being a no-nonsense businessman from the Midwest and also a team player, Buffett introduced the notion that since Salomon was a business as well as a team, the players shouldn't expect bonuses if the team screwed up. This did not go over well in the clubhouse...