Word: businessman
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...don’t define yourself well, your opponent will do it for you,” he said, adding that in 1994 Kennedy defeated him by pigeonholing him as a wealthy businessman out of touch with the average Mass. citizen...
...gubernatorial campaign, Murphy and Romney said they tried to present the successful businessman as a leader who would bring change to the primarily Democratic Massachusetts government...
...their act, and were ready to cut deals with the best in the West. Ranged against them, in the "black hats," are the reactionary forces who are against the West, Russian nationalists who favor the preservation and primacy of Russia's national interest over the rights of an individual businessman...
...only comfort for Democrats is that out-of-power parties won big in the 2002 governors races, leading to such bizarre spectacles as Democrats taking the governor's mansions in Wyoming and Oklahoma while Massachusetts elected a Mormon Republican businessman as governor. The Fletcher and Barbour victories were part of a troubling wave for fiscally-challenged governors...
China is a particularly egregious violator of Americans’ rights. John Kamm, the founder and executive director of the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, has worked on several cases of Chinese-Americans unlawfully detained there (including that of Fong Fuming, a businessman from West Orange, N.J., who was released by Beijing just last week). Kamm writes in an e-mail that, according to his source in the U.S. embassy, “there are approximately 50 American citizens in Chinese prisons or detention centers.” In a country with no transparency in its legal system...