Word: businessman
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...friend of Zammar's, who has had financial connections to al-Qaeda. The U.S. has frozen his assets, and German investigators have him under surveillance. "You can imagine what my life is like," Darkazanli told TIME last month. "My name is known in the whole world. Every businessman is afraid to deal with me." Darkazanli should at least be grateful he isn't with his friend, in the hands of America's unlikely new ally...
...nothing but trouble so far. First, Rove decided the best way to beat Davis was for Bush to handpick the ideal nominee. Bush threw his weight behind Richard Riordan, the moderate former Los Angeles mayor. But Riordan ran a lethargic, unfocused primary campaign, and conservative businessman Bill Simon, who's never held office before, pounded Riordan, calling him too liberal for the party. Of course, Simon got a big hand from Davis, who saw Riordan as the more dangerous opponent and spent tons of money on ads bashing the former mayor. Riordan went down without much of a fight...
...labor of love for two men. One of them is Malaysia's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad. Prior to the four-story museum's completion in 1998, Mahathir would regularly show up at the construction site, often after his weekly equestrian sessions. At his side was a skinny, balding businessman named Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary. The two men would pore over blueprints, tour the site to monitor progress and, according to one witness, decide together on changes, usually at the suggestion of the Prime Minister...
...Critics wonder, then, why such a formidable businessman needs to be awarded advantages such as sole-source government contracts. Of course, cultivating political connections for business purposes is standard procedure in many countries. But in Malaysia, the stakes are especially high: you can be catapulted from the ranks of the merely wealthy into the rarefied status of billionairedom in part by earning the confidence of the right people. The companies Mokhtar controls have a stake in almost every sector of the economy: from the publicly listed Malakoff, now Malaysia's biggest private sector producer of electrical power, to Pernas, which...
...Mokhtar associates acknowledge that he has been given some "sick babies," as one puts it. "But when you are a businessman you have to grab all the opportunities that come your way," explains another. Mokhtar has certainly done that. But will he be able to prevent the less desirable opportunities from turning into a new generation of debt-ridden corporations that may someday require costly bailouts? "All the talk of transparency and governance has raised expectations very high," says the CEO of a listed corporation. If the specter of cronyism appears to be returning, he warns,"it would have...