Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billionaire H. Ross Perot serious when he declared his availability for a presidential draft? In making his surprise announcement on CNN's Larry King Live last month, the Texas businessman said he would enter the race as an independent -- but only if supporters collected the 800,000 or so signatures necessary to get him on the ballot in all 50 states. He inspired volunteers sporting ROSS IS MY HOSS buttons to launch petition drives in many states...
...Vice President's wife. But it is hard to believe that she would have been invited to appear on the Today show to promote her turgid novel, Embrace the Serpent, if Dan Quayle were just another golf-loving lawyer from Indiana. Could it be pure coincidence that Greek businessman Basil Tsakos was paying Mark Hatfield's wife $55,000 for choosing fabric and paint chips for his office at the same time the Oregon Senator was urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline? Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry's wife Effie hardly got those fur coats...
...oldest son were killed. "The place was burning. My wife went in one direction; I went in another. It took us one month to find each other," he recalls. The family migrated by foot and boat to a refugee camp on the Kenyan coast. Sabrie had been a successful businessman with cars and servants and thousands of dollars of cash in the bank. Now, he says, "I am 56 years old. I cannot go home again or start over. Nothing will change in Somalia in my lifetime. But I am lucky. I am alive...
Incirharmani's safety equipment was rendered useless by the speed of the disaster: methane gas built up to critical levels in a mere 20 seconds, too % fast for automatic detectors to signal the danger. Only last month, Ishak Alaton, an Istanbul businessman, petitioned the government to close the aging mine, where four previous explosions have claimed 107 lives since 1945. Said Alaton: "It is a savage way of exploiting human life and human health...
CAREER: Oil businessman, 1953-66; U.S. House of Representatives, R-Texas, 1967-71; U.S. ambassador to United Nations, 1971-72; Republican National Coimmittee chairman, 1973-74; chief of U.S. Liaison Office, Beijing, China, 1974-75; CIA director, 1976-77; vice president, 1981-89; president, 1989-present...