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Occupation: Businessman...
...record. Here is a hot property that may be too hot to handle or, says a staffer who requests anonymity, "too hot to even talk about." John McKeown, publisher of the trade division, will not offer his personal opinion of the book, though he has strong feelings as a businessman: , "We plan to market it aggressively, with muscle and energy...
...first -- busboys, waiters, cooks and managers." For months, "they worked almost around the clock," says Jessie. Today the brothers-in-law own six restaurants and two fitness centers, employ 500 people and are easily millionaires. There seemed no reason why Kerrey would not continue as a successful small businessman, but by 1981, he had grown restless. With small groups of family and close friends, the talk frequently had an "Is this all there is?" theme. Maybe, Kerrey mused, he would try politics. Sure, everyone agreed. Mayor? The legislature? No, said Kerrey. He was thinking of running for Governor. Rasmussen...
...favorite gambit of challengers is to call for new blood. In Oregon, for example, Democratic businessman Harry Lonsdale is trying to topple Senator Mark Hatfield by arguing that "most of our elected officials have been in Washington too long." This tactic dovetails with the widening effort to limit the service of lawmakers at both the state and federal level. Last month Oklahoma voters approved a measure that will restrict state legislators to a maximum of 12 years in office. Californians will have their choice of ballot initiatives next month to do the same thing; public-opinion polls show overwhelming approval...
...seems to have ceased; boilers and generators are out of order for days. The combined effect of economic sanctions, emigrant flight and international isolation is not "strangling" the country; rather, those actions are demoralizing and destabilizing Iraq, and rendering the place increasingly dysfunctional. In the hotel elevator, a prosperous businessman, fortyish and due to report for army duty in the morning, vows he will flee. "I have a brother-in-law in Chicago," he confides...