Word: businessman
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...don’t just want to be a businessman,” Randera-Rees said, explaining his interest in African economic development. “I want to be a financial expert and African scholar who uses business as a tool to drive African development...
...diversity and dynamism of the black community warrants consideration not just to counter notions of its homogeneity, but also because black students—as your peers, your classmates, your student leaders, and your future faculty, businessman, and world leaders—are fundamentally connected to students from the myriad other communities on Harvard’s campus. And is a connection that we hope that all students—not just within the black community—will begin to explore...
...Russians Are Back In the mid-1990s, in the first flush of economic and political freedom, you couldn't walk into a high-end store in Davos without tripping over some Russian businessman's "executive assistant," usually decked out in a sumptuous fur coat...
...jewelry belonged to Mexican Businessman Hugo Salinas y Rochas, 74, and his wife Marie-Isabelle. Answering a knock on their hotel-room door, the couple were grabbed by two young men carrying pistols, who handcuffed them to bedposts, taped their mouths and then made off with the jewelry, which had just been brought up from the hotel safe...
...this work? According to Ghadry, when U.S. arms went to Iran through Israel, the Saudis paid for them. The money went to Adnan Khashoggi, a billionaire Saudi businessman who was acting as a surrogate for the royal family. Khashoggi, in turn, would pay commissions to the Iranian middlemen and give the CIA the book value of the arms for repayment to the Pentagon. Various bank accounts and straw companies were used to conceal the routing of the funds. The same devious channels, according to Ghadry, were used to pour Saudi money into accounts to fund the contras...