Word: businessman
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...Texas businessman Robert Peltier, who sponsors the national business plan contest, hopes to stimulate economic growth in the Tyler area through the Peltier Competition. Next year’s prize will offer $100,000 to the first-place winner and $100,000 more if the winning team locates their emerging business in Tyler...
...Shosholoza - named after an old work song from the mines - is emblazoned with bright African motifs. Nearly one-third of the sailors are nonwhite. "We want to show that South Africa is a country that can conceive of the construction of a racing machine," says Salvatore Sarno, the businessman who mounted Shosholoza's challenge. "It's a country where different races, different cultures can work together, challenging the top countries in the world." After the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Ainslie took a job as a high school teacher in the navy village of Simon's Town. There he met Golden Mgedeza...
...Bettie was great, shaking her tush in those Klaw non-music videos. (Astonishingly, there was no music in the downtown lofts that made do as her movie sets; whatever she danced to was in her head.) But Irving had other aspirations than being the Busby Berkeley of schmutz. A businessman above all, he needed to please his clientele. Some wanted to see Bettie don leather frocks. That was fine with Klaw. He was open to suggestions, so long as there was no nudity; Irving thought that would keep him safe from the feds. And though Bettie posed nude for still...
...Businessman Tigi Sikele allegedly threw the first rock from a crowd of protestors outside Parliament House. "After that it just erupted," says Royal Solomon Islands Police spokesman Mick Spinks. "The whole crowd just started picking up rocks and stoning the police and the police cars." Tear gas was used as a last resort to allow Rini to escape to safety, Spinks says. When the officers retreated into the building, half the 1,000-strong mob stayed around Parliament and the other half headed for Chinatown, starting an arson and looting spree that continued for two days...
...call themselves liberal Catholics. Opus Dei - we go to mass, and we don't do those other things. One is Catholic and the other is not. Some politicians say, I'm a good Catholic but I'm OK with abortion. That's like saying I'm a good businessman but I'm going to steal. People loved Christ when he performed miracles but when he asked for people to change their lives, they don't love him so much anymore. A lot of people are satisfied with what they are doing and that causes problems. A lot of the world...