Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along a small Falcon radio. In the morning he read newspapers, as he always had, frequently grumbling, "This is just garbage! What kind of propaganda is this? Who will believe it?" He found a Zenith shortwave radio that had been given to him in the 1950s by an American businessman and started to listen to Western Russian-language broadcasts. What he heard didn't exactly make him rejoice. Step by step, all his reforms were abolished...
...Well," says Jorge Mas, a millionaire Miami businessman who chairs the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, "it may finally be time to say different. With the Soviets recognizing us as key to a resolution before Castro is gone, testing Gorbachev's reasoning may be risk-free." Cuban Americans even more conservative than Mas oppose any conciliatory gesture, but if Mas' view prevails, an early probe could involve TV Marti, the Florida- based television station that began beaming American programming to Cuba last March. Radio Marti, which has penetrated Cuba for more than five years, has given Castro fits. TV Marti...
...windfall of government money and free publicity, and has catapulted itself into the ranks of Europe's favored capitals. "You go to Milan, Paris or Hamburg, and people marvel that Barcelona has become the most dynamic city in Europe," says Jose Maria Marti Ruffo, a London-based Catalan businessman...
...need a road map for the future," Gorbachev told one guest. Nice to say, muttered a businessman, but tough to draw up. As the cabernet sauvignon flowed, other Soviets at the dinner declared themselves "looking for answers" to almost everything...
Even so, the federal statute has been used to score some noticeable gains against merchants who deal in everything from "bongs" (water pipes for marijuana) to the spoons used to shovel cocaine into a user's nostrils. One such businessman, Stephen Pesce, is essentially a vile version of a Horatio Alger hero. Pesce, now 34, apparently made pot pipes as a teenager in the 1970s for a Long Island, N.Y., paraphernalia distributor now known as Main Street. He eventually took charge and built the business into one of the largest head-shop suppliers in the U.S., grossing more than...