Word: businessman
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...look and a fresh idea. The trend is against them and so, for the moment, are the numbers. Hartmarx Corp., which owns middle-income retail stores like Wallachs in New York and Baskin in Chicago as well as Hart Schaffner & Marx, purveyors of off-the-peg businessman style for more than 100 years, has been enduring a three-year slump even though it retains an 11% share of the U.S. men's suit market. Brooks Brothers posted a 41% drop in operating profits for the past fiscal year. A spokesman for Marks & Spencer, the British department-store outfit that...
Harry Weinberg was a pugnacious businessman who probably had his share of enemies when he was alive. But the real estate baron made a final gesture that will win him friends for years to come. Weinberg, who died last week at 82, willed nearly $1 billion to a family trust to help the poor. The sum represents his entire estate, except for $3 million he left his grandchildren. The trust will distribute up to $45 million a year to the needy as Weinberg dictated: one-quarter to Jewish charities, one-quarter to non-Jewish groups and the rest to organizations...
Occupation: Businessman...
...record. Here is a hot property that may be too hot to handle or, says a staffer who requests anonymity, "too hot to even talk about." John McKeown, publisher of the trade division, will not offer his personal opinion of the book, though he has strong feelings as a businessman: , "We plan to market it aggressively, with muscle and energy...
...first -- busboys, waiters, cooks and managers." For months, "they worked almost around the clock," says Jessie. Today the brothers-in-law own six restaurants and two fitness centers, employ 500 people and are easily millionaires. There seemed no reason why Kerrey would not continue as a successful small businessman, but by 1981, he had grown restless. With small groups of family and close friends, the talk frequently had an "Is this all there is?" theme. Maybe, Kerrey mused, he would try politics. Sure, everyone agreed. Mayor? The legislature? No, said Kerrey. He was thinking of running for Governor. Rasmussen...