Word: businessman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senate race against G.O.P. incumbent Wayne Allard, says except for a brief spell around Sept. 11, "health care has been the No. 1 issue we're encountering." At a get-together with a coal-company executive three weeks ago, he expected to be asked about energy policy. Instead, the businessman complained that his firm's policy of covering its retirees' prescription-drug costs was draining $10 million a year from the bottom line. Says Strickland: "Every day I'm on the campaign trail, every meeting I have, that's an issue that just screams for attention...
...reason is that Davis was locked in on him. The governor spent $10 million on ads attacking Riordan, in part because Davis wanted to run in the general election against a guy he figured would be easier to beat, businessman Bill Simon. But Davis wasn't the reason Riordan went from a 60-point lead in the polls to an 18-point loss Tuesday. And Simon, a guy with no political experience who shocked everyone by wining the GOP nomination, wasn't the reason either. Riordan has only himself to blame, for a lackluster campaign that he was never prepared...
...Senate race against G.O.P. incumbent Wayne Allard, says except for a brief spell around Sept. 11, "health care has been the No. 1 issue we're encountering." At a get-together with a coal-company executive three weeks ago, he expected to be asked about energy policy. Instead, the businessman complained that his firm's policy of covering its retirees' prescription-drug costs was draining $10 million a year from the bottom line. Says Strickland: "Every day I'm on the campaign trail, every meeting I have, that's an issue that just screams for attention...
...fellow Seattle band the Melvins. There are also letters - to bandmates, to lovers, even a note firing the band?s first drummer. Publishing sources describe the diaries as an intimate look at an artist who cherished his privacy. Says one, "I got a sense of him as a businessman, as a writer. His personality came through powerfully." Several passages reflect Cobain?s well-documented heroin addiction and bouts of depression (he committed suicide in 1994). Others - like a huffy list of band rules - reveal the surprising ambition of an artist who popularized a genre - grunge - that scorned popular success...
...Insiders say that tensions on issues like the pace of reform and cleaning up corruption simmer between Abdullah and other ranking princes, notably influential Defense Minister Prince Sultan, the next in line to the throne after Abdullah. "The Crown Prince is in an unenviable position," says a prominent Jidda businessman close to royal circles. "He is in power, but he doesn't have all the power...