Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of State in a generally pro-business Republican Administration, Henry Kissinger had an unusual opportunity to observe how American corporations operate abroad. Last week Kissinger, now a professor at Georgetown University, had some unflattering comments on the subject. Speaking before a blue-ribbon panel of businessmen at a seminar staged by Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies, Kissinger dismissed as an "absurdity" the Marxist contention that American executives use the U.S. Government to help them impose economic imperialism on foreign countries. His reason: businessmen are too shortsighted to be so Machiavellian-indeed, too myopic to call...
...Increasing investment tax credits and depreciation allowances for business. The Administration may make a second attempt to raise above the present 10% the credit that businessmen can take on purchase of new plant and equipment (Congress shot down its first try this spring). Also the White House may propose shortening the length of time during which business equipment is considered serviceable so that companies could write off the cost of the equipment more quickly...
...both that campaign and the one against the consumer protection agency, business lobbyists also roused the folks back home to put heat on Congress. They formed Southern businessmen's groups to exhort Dixie House members, and some corporations sent letters to stockholders urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell...
Cyrk--from the Polish word for circus--is a small silk screen design studio in Rockport, owned by two businessmen who met tending bar four years ago. Greg Shlopak and Paul Butman feel they successfully combine creativity and business: mostly, they produce T-shirts, those ubiquitous billboards for the body. The shop works to capacity--over 100,000 T-shirts will be printed this year, double last year's figure...
...there are innumerable blacks who think, talk and, indirectly, lead. Mostly they are bitter and angry. Their bitterness is directed not only at the government but at the liberals, who are seen as more hypocritical than the Afrikaner. When Diamond Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer and other leading, well-meaning white businessmen set up the Urban Foundation to help improve the quality of life of black Africans, the reaction of many black spokesmen was that this would simply ameliorate apartheid rather than change anything basic. Says one black African editor: "Oppenheimer wakes up one morning after a good dream and gives...