Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amiably hard-nosed international businessman describes how he faced down a moralizing junior, then recalls that his wife asked, "Did you have to do your Bugsy Siegel routine?" The wife, a no-longer-loyal corporate helpmeet, recounts warning other corporate wives of what they may face on duty abroad -- a child murdered in a random robbery, a marriage ruined by loneliness, a spouse corrupted by the demands of the bottom line. The husband, alone and adrift in a forced retirement brought on by his wife's untimely candor, muses on what he lost and why he ever wanted...
...VIEWS ARE ECHOED BY VLADImir Ivanyushkin, a Moscow businessman. Says he: "If the Westerners keep giving us aid or credits, it's stupid. No matter what kind of government we have, communist, fascist or democratic, it's still going to be a Russian government, which means that all that aid will simply go down the drain, and nobody will ever find where it ends...
...eagerly pursuing what some regard as the most foulmouthed, misogynistic and incendiary rap groups in the hood. Its growing stable of raucous rappers range from the explosive Ice Cube, who provoked public outrage nearly two years ago with songs that called for the killing of a white Jewish businessman and threatened arson against Korean grocers, to the dreaded Dr. Dre, whose lyrics have also advocated violence. Last month the Los Angeles-based firm added to its own notoriety by signing up the bad boy of rap, Ice-T, after he and Time Warner's Sire label severed their ties...
Consumer advocate Stuart Rado, a Miami Beach businessman who lost $3,500 to an overseas-job firm in 1981, blames the government for lax policing. "The FTC is impotent to do anything. People don't know where to complain," he says. In the past six months, however, the state attorney general's office has filed civil suit against four companies, including the now defunct Roblan, and is investigating four more firms for deceptive trade practices. Last month the FTC filed a complaint against another Florida operator, the Douglas Co., for allegedly deceiving clients about jobs in sunny foreign climes...
...attention to their cause." But it was by no means certain last week that the Trade Center bombing was an act of political terrorism. During the Gulf War, a bomb found on a chemical storage tank in Virginia instantly raised an alarm. The culprit turned out to be a businessman who hoped to make an insurance-fraud fire look like the work of Iraqis...