Word: businessman
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...McCandless (Emile Hirsch) graduated from Emory University in 1992 and decided he needed a little time to himself before joining the bourgeois lockstep. It is a little difficult to see what's bugging him. His father (William Hurt) is a successful, self-made businessman, who is perhaps a little too sternly conventional in his views. His mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is a perhaps a little too softly so and, yes, there are strains in their marriage. But they are scarcely monsters, and the values they represent, though stodgy, are not exactly oppressive. Plenty of young people have slithered through...
Just as important to the creation of a thriving Lord & Taylor is Baker's ability to dive headfirst into the insular fashion world, solicit advice and have people root for his success. He isn't simply a hands-off leader with a big bank account. He's a likable businessman with an artsy streak?a trait not immediately apparent from his unaffected personality. (But visit his home, and you will find priceless Picassos, Chagalls and a James Turrell art-installation pool...
...more step towards Murdoch’s eventual media monopoly? Would the conservative mogul destroy The Journal’s objectivity? Would the acquisition spell the end of The Journal as we know it? We find much of this hype is ill-reasoned. Murdoch is at heart a businessman and as The Journal’s owner, he will be primarily interested in its success. He will most likely be loath to tamper with or degrade a brand that has made its reputation by consistently providing quality journalism. The financial consequences of any intervention by Murdoch would simply...
...Senate, underscoring his outsider credentials and institutional accomplishments. Hillary Clinton reintroduced herself to voters as someone who "grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America" - not inside the Beltway - and quickly recapped her accomplishments in Arkansas, the White House and the Senate. Mitt Romney - successful businessman, head of the 2002 Olympics and former Massachusetts governor - structured his whole speech around the notion that American needs "innovation and transformation" and explained how "throughout my life, I have pursued innovation and transformation...
...being a "small-town boy" from Missouri; Gary Hart launched his 1984 bid by describing himself "as the son of Dust Bowl farm parents who never finished high school"; and in the opening paragraph of his announcement in 1974, Jimmy Carter said "I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor and a Christian." In this approach, biography is destiny...