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Word: businessmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Osborn Elliott, in charge of keeping old jobs in the city and bringing in new ones, announced the blackout at least had not caused a group of oil suppliers from Houston and New Orleans to drop consideration of moving some of their offices to the city. But how many businessmen thought of moving out? How many will become more difficult to sell on moving in? At best, Elliott's job has been a holding action, and last week's crisis, he said with great understatement, "doesn't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BLACKOUT: NIGHT OF TERROR | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

During the last lap of his run for the presidency, Jimmy Carter was delighted to accept the belated support of organized labor. Once in the Oval Office, however, the conservative Georgia Democrat spent much time soothing largely Republican businessmen, while seeming to slight all sorts of cherished labor goals. Reflecting on Carter's lack of concern for such labor pets as common situs picketing, which would have enabled a single union to shut down a construction site, AFL-CIO President George Meany groused that Carter's record on labor legislation was "a lot of talking but very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace with Jimmy War on the Hill | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

Ward, advised by the National Association for Freedom, a right-wing organization made up mostly of businessmen, refused to cooperate with ACAS. He rejected its proposal to poll his employees on whether or not they wanted union representation. When ACAS polled the striking workers anyway, they opted for the union. ACAS then recommended that the company recognize APEX. But Ward went to court to contend that the ballot had been improperly conducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Unions Scuttle the Social Contract | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...Dominican Republic or lecturing to an awed audience in his company's baronial headquarters suite overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded themselves in a citadel where everyone else was below them"), ideology ("I am a capitalist and I don't intend to change"), even China ("I think there was maybe something good about Mao when he sent the ministers out to do something in the fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blues for Mr. Charlie | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...realm of fund raising. Holmes became the Taylor Company's president and began cutting costs where he could, notably by limiting the company's number of performances in Manhattan, where operating costs are very heavy. That is just fine with Taylor-at least for now. "The businessmen leave me alone artistically," he says. "And besides, I happen to be a skinflint myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Terrific Tempo of Paul Taylor | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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