Word: businessman
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...week ICKIEST SCENE Two men wake up chained to pipes in a dirty bathroom and must saw off their feet to go free A woman's intestines gleam in the sun after she's smacked by a truck A Japanese tourist loses an eyeball to a blowtorch-wielding American businessman A man fights an ax-wielding mutant with a flagpole he pulls from a corpse's skull An unlucky spelunker ends up standing in a pool of blood that reaches to her chin A naked woman strung up in a meat locker is sprayed with cold water that hardens...
...prisoner flown to Syria in December 2001 was no ordinary criminal: 42-year-old Mohammad Haydr Zammar, a businessman who had immigrated to Germany and was living in Hamburg, was wanted by U.S. officials on suspicion of helping to recruit some of the 9/11 hijackers, as part of Al Qaeda's Hamburg cell. According to the report, after a U.S. request Zammar was arrested in Morocco by local police. He was questioned in Morocco by CIA officials and then flown to Damascus; the intelligence report does not specify which aircraft transferred...
...That's still a problem for McCaskill, who lives with her husband, a wealthy businessman, in a modernist house near the affluent St. Louis suburb of Ladue. But it also happens to be a problem for Talent, who lives in Chesterfield, another upscale St. Louis suburb. Unlike most country voters, Talent talks fast and enunciates every word. In a room of overall-clad pig farmers, Talent's pressed slacks and Oxford shirts often seem too nice by half...
...Braley, a Waterloo trial lawyer and legal aid attorney, is presumed to have the slight lead over Quad Cities businessman Whalen thanks largely to President George W. Bush's low approval ratings. A self-described progressive Democrat, Braley has criticized the President's handling of foreign and domestic concerns, from the Iraq War to the economy, and dubbed his opponent a potential "rubber stamp" for the Administration...
...part Whalen, who calls himself a "consistent conservative," hasn't shied away from the Bush Administration but is portraying himself as an ordinary citizen, successful businessman and independent voice. A Harvard Law School grad, Whalen founded the Machine Shed restaurant chain (famed locally for its huge pork chops and cinnamon rolls) and owns the Heart of America Restaurants and Inns...