Word: businessman
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...Last Crusade, earned $32 million in theaters, twice as much as the most popular Japanese film. Of the 27 movies currently showing in Rio's cinemas, 21 are American. Overseas fans say they are drawn to the American spirit of independence and optimism. Says Roberto Fernandez Blanco, an Argentine businessman: "When you see an American work of art, you feel a breeze of freedom of expression." Thus the MCA deal strikes some Americans as another example of selling the goose instead of the golden eggs...
...which brings to mind a scene in the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait in which the fictional owner of the Los Angeles Rams decries the abrupt takeover of the team by a fancy-pants financier. "The s.o.b. got my team," he moans. But how did the sneaky businessman do it? Says the team owner: "I asked for $67 million. And he said O.K." Last week Matsushita said O.K. Does that make American culture a victim? Hardly. If anything, a company that invests $6.1 billion in a venture is likely to treat its new possession like the rarest of gems...
Faced with this battle between two former friends, many voters saw in Tyminski, 42, a new face and a successful businessman who seemed to embody their hopes for prosperity. NEITHER ONE NOR THE OTHER, read Tyminski's campaign posters. "People didn't vote for a Western millionaire," says Piotr Aleksandrowicz, deputy chief editor of the Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita. "They voted against the Establishment and for their own dreams." But it was Tyminski who got their votes, running especially well among younger and rural voters and in areas like the coal-mining city of Katowice, hit hard by the government...
...Early this month the Japanese tourism firm said it had agreed to buy Heavenly Valley, the ski resort near Lake Tahoe, for an estimated $90 million. The sale would mean that Kamori Kanko will play host to more U.S. skiers than any other company. The firm, controlled by Sapporo businessman Katsuo Kamori, 83, and his son Kimihito, 47, also owns the ski resort of Steamboat Springs, Colo., which the Kamoris bought last year for a reported $110 million. The elder Kamori has not confined his interest to the slopes. Besides owning amusement parks and golf courses in Japan...
...right thing, virtue will be rewarded. Well, the press and the Democrats aren't going to see it that way." By the end of the year, White House sources predict, a Bush re-election committee will be formed, possibly under the leadership of Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher or businessman Fred Malek. As if to underscore how the election changed the President's outlook, Bush and Sununu late last week lunched at the White House with some of his old political allies, including former press secretary Peter Teeley and former chief of staff Craig Fuller. Afterward one participant claimed that Bush...