Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four Russians were interested in a joint venture with their guest of honor, a foreign businessman, but had little desire to meet anywhere they could be seen by KGB types. (Russians still call the secret police the KGB, even though the domestic side of the agency has been renamed the Federal Counterintelligence Service.) Nor could they afford to be spotted by anyone from the vast, amorphous gang of criminals and hustlers that make up the Russian mafia. Only a few months ago, one of the Russians explained apologetically, the hotel manager had been killed because he failed to show...
...businessman found the mine, 200 lbs. of uncut emeralds in sacks and a tangled dispute over who was going to sell them. Unearthed for use in laser- weapons programs, the emeralds technically belonged to MINATOM, the Russian ministry in charge of the former U.S.S.R.'s vast nuclear program. But as each man in the bathhouse well knew, there was nothing unusual about a squabble over the right to sell state assets. Since the demise of the Soviet empire, no one knows for sure who has the right to sell such assets. Meanwhile, billions of dollars' worth of weapons...
...grandmother after being orphaned at an early age. (When asked what the circumstances were surrounding her separation form her parents, Concepcion quickly answered that "it is not important.") After immigrating to the United States at 18, Concepcion worked at the Spanish Consulate for three years before marrying an Italian businessman...
...Whitewater grand jury in Washington continued to hear testimony from Administration officials. And the special counsel obtained cooperation, as part of a plea bargain on non-Whitewater fraud charges, from an Arkansas businessman and former judge who says Clinton pressured him to make questionable loans. The President denies this accusation...
...claims to chafe when his competitors make cracks about his "rug merchant" bargaining methods and his "Mediterranean" temperament, Hayek nonetheless displays what he describes as "an exaggerated amount of self- confidence. I want to look in my mirror every morning and say, 'You're great.' " His strength as a businessman, Hayek says, is that he has retained "the fantasy of a six-year-old child. If you can keep and use the curiosity of a child, you can only improve everything around you." He describes his talent as being able to spot new ways of selling "emotional" products. "An emotional...