Word: businessman
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...hearings last year by the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee. If found guilty of the OSC charges, both men could be banned for life from Government service. The alleged offenses began in 1984, when the whistle blowers turned in Santella for trading favors with a Mob-linked businessman. Thereafter, senior IRS officials began a harassment campaign that is still going...
Everything depends on how the East German economy responds to a free-market jump start. Pohl points out that "no one can subsidize uneconomic jobs in the G.D.R. forever." Elmar Pieroth, a prominent West Berlin politician and businessman who advises the G.D.R government, insists, "The spirit of entrepreneurship is reappearing, and people are eager to take advantage of the possibilities." That was the kind of spirit that created the Wirtschaftswunder...
...case stirred chilling memories: a German businessman helps a mad dictator build a poison-gas factory. But the time was the 1980s, the accused Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen, head of a prominent chemical firm, and the dictator Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. "You knowingly delivered to Libya an installation suitable for the production of poison-gas weapons," said an angry Judge Jurgen Henninger at the end of the eleven-day trial in Mannheim...
...even when we're not speaking Spanish but only English that a Spaniard will understand, the effect is just as rejuvenating. How vivid the cliche "over the hill" sounds when we're explaining it to an Osaka businessman! How rich the idiom "raining cats and dogs!" Speaking English as a second language, we find ourselves rethinking ourselves, simplifying ourselves, committed, for once, not to making impressive sentences but just to making sense. English is the official language of the European Free Trade Association, though none of its six members has English as its mother tongue. Why? Well, says the secretary...
East European natives often enjoy important advantages over other Western businessmen. Besides speaking the language of their prospective customers and partners, many enjoy longtime links through immigrant communities to those who have recently taken power. Says Chicago businessman Donald Mucha, 58, who exports machinery components to his native Poland: "It's exciting to be on the inside of rebuilding a nation." Known as the returniks, these natives of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and other new bastions of private enterprise are helping manufacture consumer goods and build housing, hotels and department stores...