Word: businessman
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...didn't become one of the world's richest men, and by far its biggest steel baron, by shying away from controversy. Even so, the Indian-born businessman Lakshmi Mittal says he was taken aback by the fury that greeted his announcement in late January that he was bidding to buy European steelmaker Arcelor, formed in 2002 out of what was left of the French, Luxembourgian, Belgian and Spanish steel industries. "We really didn't expect such a violent reaction," Mittal told Time. "A lot of people were obviously not happy at all." [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...billion Amount Israeli businessman Avi Shaked has offered to pay Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya if he reaches a peace accord with Israel...
...created a system that is ruled by fear and violence." Ryzhkov claims that the armed forces, Interior Ministry, FSB and those who have retired from them to join private security services "are running this country, own its economy and use violence and murder as habitual management techniques." A U.S. businessman in Moscow seconds the argument. "While you in the press are obsessed by Politkovskaya and Litvinenko, you've missed that half a dozen major oil executives and another half-dozen major bankers have been murdered in the last few months." Unlike Litvinenko's sickness, Russia's may not be fatal...
...billion Amount Israeli businessman Avi Shaked has offered to pay Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya if he reaches a peace accord with Israel $100 million Amount Shaked says he would give if the Palestinian and Israeli Premiers simply sit down to talk...
...that and say ‘he was one of us.’” Although WIB is, by its name, oriented toward women, Niver said the group “would in theory only have women talk to women,” rather than have a businessman like DeLuca speak. “But that doesn’t make sense, since we don’t discriminate as a organization, and we want to garner women with whatever knowledge we can.” The talk was the latest in a series of events with prominent...