Word: businessman
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...hampered by precolonial land rights that still prevail in most of sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile the cost of fertilizer has risen even more dramatically than the cost of fuel, leaving farmers facing a triple whammy: oil- and food-price rises, plus a lack of credit. Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian businessman and Africa's richest man, said small farmers are not supported by governments. "Farmers would have to grow gold" to make a profit, he commented...
...Israelis for being disgusted with their politicians? A sex scandal brought down the last President; a former Finance Minister faces indictment over alleged fraud, theft and money-laundering; and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may be indicted for taking more than $150,000, mostly in cash, from a New York businessman. A popular bumper sticker says, OLMERT, YOU DISGUST ME. The deepening sense of odium is reflected in Olmert's single-digit popularity ratings. He may be forced to resign within weeks, and already politicians have begun to handicap the succession...
...Chain Campaign Atlanta businessman Kirk Dornbush has raised millions of dollars for the Democratic Party and its candidates over the past 16 years. Before campaign-finance laws banned unregulated soft money, he recalls, there were times he walked around with six-figure checks in both pockets of his jacket. But these days, he does much of his fund raising in a much humbler fashion: selling $3 key chains and $25 T shirts at Obama rallies. At the first merchandise table Dornbush set up for a Georgia event, "we were just completely sold out," he says. "There were lines of people...
...today's flag-burning is entirely for the benefit of a lone Serbian TV camera, and most of those nearby respond as if some annoying regular had just selected his favorite song on the jukebox for the umpteenth time. "It's all fake," mutters a local businessman under his breath...
Pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign is mounting. On May 28, Ehud Barak, the current Defense Minister and a former Prime Minister, called on Olmert to step aside, saying he is too distracted by an ongoing corruption probe to effectively lead. On May 27, a U.S. businessman testified in a Jerusalem court that he gave Olmert $150,000 over 15 years ending in 2003--much of it in cash stuffed in envelopes. Olmert, who earlier had disclosed that Israel was in the midst of conducting peace talks with Syria, says the funds were legal campaign contributions...