Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admit it. Like many single women, I've scanned the wedding announcements in the Sunday paper, wondering when I might find Mr. Right. So when I read the article about the happy couple who met through the online personals--she, an attractive editor; he, a saxophone-playing businessman--I was more than a little intrigued. Maybe online meetings weren't just a plot device for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. If seemingly normal people could find their soul mates on the Web, why couldn...
...beat the s___ out of every one of those guys." In fact, Everlast feels confident enough about his standing in the rap world to take a verbal swipe at Puffy Combs: "I don't think Puffy really cares about what he's doing. He's a brilliant businessman, but he's no different from the Backstreet Boys or the Spice Girls because he's just creating a product...
...Power and success didn't change Puffy," says one former associate. "He's always been a great businessman and a master manipulator." Combs rules Bad Boy with a firm, sometimes ruthless hand, controlling a dozen producers and rappers, supervising them in the studio, approving their lyrics and sometimes even dictating the color of their shoes. If he is tough, Combs says, it's because "there's never been an opportunity like this, even back in the Motown days. Very few people have the chance to be their own boss, to own what they create." Sometimes, to lead...
...States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), a peacekeeping force led by Nigeria, struggled to throw the rebels out. It was bloody, street-by-street fighting. Aid agencies evacuated most of their personnel during the week. The only way in and out of the city was by Nigerian military helicopter. One Lebanese businessman who had stayed behind to protect his rice crop bought his way out on the same helicopter that carried a TIME reporter in, one of the few journalists to venture into Sierra Leone in the week following the killing of an Associated Press staff member and the wounding...
This year my vacation excitement was squashed even before I even got home. I snuck away within minutes of my last section, speeding off to the Delta Shuttle at Logan. A friendly businessman seated next to me struck up a conversation. Correctly identifying me as a college student, he asked the usual questions, including whether I was happy to be done with my exams. He blanched when I told him about our raw deal. Was I going to study at home, during the holidays? Unlikely, I answered. Yet inevitably on the way home from the airport I was thinking about...