Word: businessman
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...Some 300 meters down the street is the Wenzhou Hotel, bankrolled by entrepreneurs from that famously commercial city on China's coast. In the karaoke lounge, 27-year-old businessman Wang Jianliang is giving a lengthy diatribe condemning the splittists. They are "just a small minority" he says, dismissively. Wang, who says he has been in Khotan for five years, adds that residents should be grateful for the economic development of recent years. "When I came out here it was nothing. Now it's a big city." He turns to belt out a ballad in his native Fujian dialect...
...Andres Oppenheimer, a Miami Herald columnist and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors while neglecting...
SEPTEMBER 1999 After a two-year investigation by French authorities, a 6,000-page report is published that holds driver Henri Paul responsible. Dodi's father, Egyptian businessman Mohamed al Fayed, claims the couple were murdered in a conspiracy involving the British royal family...
...change, enacted while the case is pending, is not admissible. In that event, Erdogan - who faces a five-year ban from politics should the AKP lose - could call early elections, or even urge his supporters to take to the streets. "The man is a fighter," said one leading businessman. "He won't give up. If necessary, he'll take it to the bitter...
...also money. According to Afghans, judges routinely accept bribes for favorable verdicts. Mohammad Mumtaz, an Afghan businessman visiting from the U.S., tells the story of a cousin's property dispute gone bad. His opponent paid a higher bribe to the court, and his cousin landed in jail for trying to get a squatter off his land. But it turned out OK, says Mumtaz. The cousin went through a broker who was a friend of the judge, paid $6500, and was released a month early. Such stories take on a more somber note when criminals and alleged members of the Taliban...