Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Montgomery, Alabama, has ruled that Soldier of Fortune magazine will have to pay $4.37 million in compensatory damages to Michael and Ian Braun. Their father, a businessman, was murdered in a contract killing set in motion by a 1985 classified ad headed GUN FOR HIRE and offering the "special skills" of a "professional mercenary." Two other businessmen, the advertiser, Richard Michael Savage, and an associate of his, were convicted of conspiracy in the murder. Soldier of Fortune, the court ruled, was negligent in publishing an ad that clearly indicated...
...made a more revealing comment when asked at his press conference what had gone through his mind the last day. "I'm an engineer. I just rationally looked at the facts . . . You don't make good decisions with emotions." Like the good businessman he is, Perot calculated the cost-benefit ratio and found the bottom line wanting. His mind-set is different from that of a seasoned politician, who knows campaigns often encounter ambushes and that persistence under attack is a cardinal virtue. A disillusioned Perot worker in San Francisco, Ivan Sharpe, said, "He probably doesn't deserve the presidency...
...state of play could be quite different. Clinton could be 20, even 30, points ahead of George Bush; the President could be considering life after defeat; and Ross Perot could be doing whatever it is that makes a self- described "world class" businessman world class. The nation's economy is growing at the slowest rate since World War II; the recession from hell is claiming those who never heard of unemployment benefits; more people than ever before say the country is on the "wrong track"; and Bush, if he has a clue, is keeping it secret. Clinton should be planning...
...trustees of sleepy little Glassboro State College in southern New Jersey are certainly not rude. Overwhelmed by a munificent $100 million pledge from a local businessman named Henry Rowan, the trustees last week not only voted to take the money but, in an expression of gratitude bordering on the fulsome, also decided to rename the school Rowan College of New Jersey. A self-effacing manufacturer of industrial furnaces who attended Williams College and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rowan declared himself flattered by the gesture. He had not asked for the name change; it was simply their...
...banks and insurance companies have systematically shunned South Central L.A. as an unprofitable business venue. From theirs, Bakewell and other black community leaders are struggling to ensure minority inclusion in the rebuilding process -- and ultimately in the renaissance of South Central. "We need a cheerleader like Ueberroth," says black businessman John Bryant. "But while he's working from the top down, there needs to be a lot of people working from the bottom up to meet him halfway...