Word: businessman
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...same, Vietnamese tend to believe that the return of Uncle Sam, offering strategic security with one hand and commercial goodwill with the other, will redeem a history of mutual mistakes. "Everyone I know is interested in doing business in Vietnam," says Hong Kong-based U.S. businessman Warren Williams. "Expectations on both sides are unrealistic. When I was there in the mid- to late '60s, the Vietnamese thought nothing would go right until the Americans got out. Now they say nothing will go right until the Americans come back. I thought they were wrong then, and I think they are wrong...
...were jolted out of their denial. "I used to figure that if you have a life-span of 70 years, you'll have to go through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup and inconvenience," says John Barber, a businessman originally from Connecticut. "Given the benefits -- the business opportunities, the weather, the life-style -- I used to think, 'That's a fair bargain.' Now I'm not so sure." Others feel helpless. "If they say my house can't be saved," said political consultant Jill Banks-Barad, whose Sherman Oaks...
Commentators raised three other matters: Inman's failure to pay taxes on wages of a housekeeper; the 1988 bankruptcy of Tracor, a major defense manufacturer, after an investment group headed by Inman bought it out; and a letter to a judge defending the patriotism of James Guerin, a businessman who had been convicted of illegal sales of weapons technology to South Africa...
...late 1930s, an Austrian businessman named Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) arrives in Krakow, Poland, intent on making his fortune. He aims, in his own words, to leave with "two steamer trunks full of money." Schindler is a dazzlingly charismatic man, the ultimate seducer, who, according to Spielberg, "romances the entire city of Krakow,...romances the Nazis,...romances the politicians, the police chiefs, the women...
...might belong to a puppy just saved from the city pound. Sophie's eyes have found their love object in Irene Brice (Elena Safonova), a concert singer in occupied Paris during World War II. Talented and high-spirited, apparently gliding through life, Irene can juggle the affections of a businessman husband (Richard Bohringer) and a lover (Samuel Labarthe) who is in the Resistance. Sophie, a promising pianist, is pleased to be Irene's accompanist and maid; she serves tea, irons, watches, tries to keep secrets. Servant and mistress, darkness and light -- why, the two women might be in different movies...