Word: businessman
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...past and anxious over an increasingly violent present. The legacy of the country's 36-year-civil war is never far from contemporary politics, and the front-runner in the presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house of his Guatemala City church the day after he published an exhaustive report...
...Defining Moment. In a series of biographical pieces on the major candidates, we identify a pivotal event in their personal or political life and explore how it altered them forever. We begin this week with Karen Tumulty's look at how Mitt Romney, as Massachusetts Governor, applied his businessman's mind to the seemingly intractable problem of health care and devised a plan to insure all his state's citizens--an achievement he now downplays to conservative audiences...
...hospitals and health centers that provided medically necessary care to people who couldn't pay for it. But with a third of the state budget going toward health care, the sheer inefficiency of treating the sore throats of the uninsured in emergency rooms didn't sit well with the businessman in Romney even after he'd told Stemberg that health-care reform was not on his agenda. Meanwhile, religious groups and health-care advocates were pushing their solution: a liberal universal-health-care ballot initiative that would raise taxes. And the picture was about to get significantly worse: Health...
That creates a particular problem in trying to figure out which donations are being funneled through proxies. Fund-raisers face pressure to gather large numbers of checks but have no responsibility to screen them. Fugitive businessman Norman Hsu drew attention to the $850,000 he bundled for Clinton because of some of the donations came from people of modest means. In August, two Michigan lawyers were indicted on charges of soliciting and reimbursing proxy donors who contributed $125,000 to John Edwards' 2004 presidential...
...resulting impeachment attempt in the country's lower house of Congress was blocked by Arroyo's political allies. Her courting of foreign investment has also drawn fire. In early October, Arroyo canceled a $329 million contract with Chinese company ZTE to build a government broadband network after a businessman who had submitted a rival bid alleged that the deal involved millions of dollars in kickbacks for members of Arroyo's administration. Election Commissioner Benjamin Abalos resigned after the Cabinet Secretary in charge of infrastructure development testified that Abalos had offered him a $4.4 million bribe to approve the project. (Abalos...