Word: businessman
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...Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Annan at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Going Home middle east Israel and Lebanon 's militant group Hizballah announced a prisoner-swap agreement. Under the German-mediated deal, Israel will initially exchange about 30 Arab prisoners for the return of a businessman and three soldiers presumed dead. At a later stage, the Israelis will release up to 400 Palestinian detainees and hand back the bodies of 59 Lebanese guerrillas. meanwhile in the u.k. ... A Fall in Readership? British hiking magazine, Trail, apologized to its readers for publishing a route that would have...
...Unfortunately, for those willing to risk it, "there is no such official club per se," says San Diego-based businessman Phil Kessler, who owns the U.S. trademark for "Mile High Club." Still, his eight-year-old website, milehighclub.com, offers "MHC"-branded merchandise and lists dozens of stories about World War II soldiers trysting over the South Pacific to married couples spicing up their summer vacations. No doubt Sperry, who died in a crash seven years after his inaugural rendezvous, looks down at this with lusty approval...
...nonwealthy Americans love because he lives like a lottery winner. Enviable yet accessible, neither shy nor subtle, he was reality TV before reality TV was. In Trump's world, as on Survivor, success is its own justification. His detractors can say that he's a better self-promoter than businessman, but all those chandeliers and sheets of brass are real and inarguable. Likewise, when a conniver like Richard Hatch reaches the finals of Survivor, the fact that he has made it proves--to the audience and his opponents--that he deserved to, whether or not they like...
...constitution for the country. The assembly, or loya jirga, broke down in chaos after 200 of the 502 delegates boycotted a vote on a number of controversial amendments. It reconvened only to stall again, reportedly over the issue of the rights of minority tribes. Right Turn GUATEMALA Conservative businessman and former Guatemala City Mayor Oscar Berger was elected President in a second-round runoff with 54% of the vote, easily beating center-left rival Alvaro Colom, who received 46%. Berger promised to boost the ailing economy by encouraging investment and stamping out the corruption that tainted the administration of outgoing...
...term and ease the growing financial burden on America’s middle class. To make an economy grow and create high-paying, high-quality jobs for this generation and the next, a president needs to understand how business works. I’m the son of a small-businessman who worked days and nights, balanced his books and taught his children to respect every dollar. So I’ve always appreciated the fact that jobs and wealth are created because of private labor, private investment, private productivity and private innovation...