Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overseas carousing. He drank Scotch freely, ordered caviar by the pound, attended the raunchy shows in the nightclubs of Beirut so frequently that he knew all the leading belly dancers by name, engaged in myriad liaisons with women (he is said to have paid the wife of a Lebanese businessman $100,000 a year to make herself available) and, if old stories are to be believed, gambled away $1 million in the casinos of Monte Carlo during a single weekend...
...Republicans are vying for the right to challenge Kerry: Concord real estate developer James Rappaport and Hingham businessman Dan W. Daly...
LEADING LIVES: Casey by Joseph E. Persico -- The secrets of businessman-spook William. The Colonel by Godfrey Hodgson -- Henry Stimson's life and active service. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy -- From playpen to perestroika. What a guy! Ronald Reagan: An American Life -- Now he remembers! In All His Glory: William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith -- The prime time of TV's most glamorous tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson -- Volume I, 1881 to 1906, by the artist's scholarly friend. Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard...
...Saddam a modern-day answer to the leadership vacuum opened by the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. They also applaud his unwavering hostility toward those whom he perceives as enemies, especially Israel. "Saddam fulfills the ambitions of the Arab people," says Ahmed al-Yaamani, a businessman who like thousands of other Jordanians, registered last week with a popular committee to fight for Iraq against the U.S. "He is a hero...
During the investigation of the suicide, Stern also has to handle another family matter. His client and brother-in-law, Dixon Hartnell, is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office for securities fraud. Hartnell, who owns a brokerage house, has long held a reputation as a ruthless businessman. His practices have always teetered on the illegal, and he is accused of using inside information to make a profit on the Chicago futures market. Hartnell's case is complicated by testimony given--in exchange for immunity--by Stern...