Word: businessman
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...first thing the snakehead wants to say is that he isn't some slave driver or gangster. He is, he says, a respectable businessman from Fujian's interior who settled in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s and started a textile import company. That was just after the Berlin Wall had fallen, and it was easy for an enterprising Fujianese to sell cheap cloth to Czechs. Today, he has upgraded his trading from cloth to people. Willing people, he insists. "There are too many people in China, so we have to go abroad to make money," he says...
...sabotage the engagement of Meg’s daughter Melissa (Anna I. Polonyi ’10), for whom Meg is throwing an engagement party and with whom Blair has been in love since high school. A delightfully quirky mix of guests arrives throughout the day, including a broke businessman turned porn writer (Steve Sweeney), a giggly southern belle whose past is not as chaste as it seems (Rebecca M. Harrington ’08, who is also a Crimson columnist), and a pair of man-hungry rivals, Diedre (Windsor G. Hanger ’10) and Rebecca (Caitlin...
...These statements offer little comfort, though, to squatters facing imminent eviction. In theory, the government prohibits the destruction of squatter settlements on Crown land where residents have no alternative housing. But owners won't back down. Local businessman and Rotarian Peter Drysdale leads a campaign to build 700 homes for squatters. He says landowners take advantage of the squatters' lack of rights, citing the case of a woman who organized an unofficial rental agreement with one family of indigenous Fijians. The woman had electricity connected to her shack, but then the chief plugged the freezer of his fish shop into...
...only two Republicans who have announced plans to run for the state's top job. Jindal, who tacked hard to the right to win his suburban New Orleans district seat in 2004, has the backing of the state party. Now, another candidate, state Senator and wealthy businessman Walter Boasso, has been running television ads touting his anti-establishment credentials...
...Ibera wetlands region is a vast labyrinth of marshes, lakes and floating islands totaling nearly two million acres in northeastern Argentina. And so American businessman Douglas Tompkins started buying it up in 1999; he owns 442,000 acres of it so far. Together, directly or through foundations they control, Tompkins and his wife have acquired properties encompassing Pacific coastal fjords, Patagonian virgin forest and tropical wetlands, a total area of some 3,437 square miles (2.1 million acres) in both Argentina and neighboring Chile. That is the approximate area of Cyprus. He is not trying to create his own country...