Word: businessman
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...Thailand (it will apparently be held in the name of the Thailand Privilege Co., set up to run the scheme, as foreigners are not allowed to own land in their own right). "The ability to buy land was the reason I bought the card," says Rasmus Lisbjerg, a Danish businessman. Land ownership is, however, a sensitive issue. Thaksin is popular with the locals because he has promised to eradicate poverty in six years. But when millions of indebted, landless Thai farmers can't afford a rice paddy of their own, opponents of the scheme will dislike the symbolism of land...
...Thailand (it will apparently be held in the name of the Thailand Privilege Co., set up to run the scheme, as foreigners are not allowed to own land in their own right). "The ability to buy land was the reason I bought the card," says Rasmus Lisbjerg, a Danish businessman. Land ownership is, however, a sensitive issue. Thaksin is popular with the locals because he has promised to eradicate poverty in six years. But when millions of indebted, landless Thai farmers can't afford a rice paddy of their own, opponents of the scheme will dislike the symbolism of land...
...Gotta Give, which opens on Dec. 12, reads like an attempt to completely dismantle his public persona: he spends the first half of the movie playing directly to type and the second half dead set against it. Nicholson plays Harry Sanborn, 63, a rich, unmarried and devilishly charming Manhattan businessman who dates only women under 30. One weekend Harry scampers off with his girlfriend--played by the lively Amanda Peet (in reality, an over-the-hill 31)--to her mother's beach house, only to keel over with a heart attack as soon as the fun starts. His girlfriend promptly...
...Total of monkeys attending a feast last week in Lopburi, central Thailand. The nine-course meal included Jell-O and cola. The banquet is hosted annually by a local businessman who believes the monkeys have brought him good fortune...
Moscow’s Danilov Monastery lost its original bells when the Soviet Union sold them to American businessman Charles Crane, who in turn donated them to Harvard...