Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special White House working group, headed by Presidential Assistant Anne Wexler, met almost daily to pore over final details. Administration officials briefed hundreds of U.S. farmers, businessmen and labor leaders on the minutiae of U.S.-Chinese relations. Presidential aides issued a fat silver briefing folder in which more-or-less familiar Chinese names were rendered almost unrecognizable in Peking's own Chinese transliteration system: Teng Hsiao-p'ing, for example, became Deng Xiaoping...
There is a tremendous backlog of demand for capital goods building up, but businessmen will be willing to buy and build only when they see that inflation has been curbed. They believe, with much justification, that Government spending is one of the root sources of the inflationary spiral that hurts all Americans. For both psychological and substantive reasons, narrowing the deficit and bringing the budget into balance are vital steps in slowing the rise in prices. During the '60s and early '70s, the budget exploded with a mass of social programs that were perhaps innovative and needed...
Both men are workaholics. Both are also members of the "Regency Mafia" group of businessmen, bankers and politicians who breakfast most mornings at Manhattan's Regency Hotel, making deals and complaining about the price of their orange juice ($1.60). A takeover that involves much litigation can run up six-and sometimes seven-figure fees. In addition, Flom is on retainer to numerous corporations that part with $50,000 annually just to keep him from coming at them in a raid; Lipton has been bond counsel to the city of New York...
...Midwestern businessmen were exhilarated by the storm. Wisconsin's eight snowblower manufacturers worked overtime trying to keep pace with demand. Curtis Barren, a Chicago AMC dealer, sold 37 four-wheel-drive Jeeps in five days (vs. a typical three or four). And with so many offices and factories idle, tens of thousands of housebound workers found themselves with a few days of holiday they had not expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press...
...white businessmen are more forceful foes of the minimum wage than such black economists as U.C.L.A.'s Thom as Sowell and Temple University's Walter E. Williams. Sowell has concluded that the rise and spread of minimum-wage coverage is a catastrophe for young and unskilled blacks.. According to his studies, it is by far the major reason that the unemployment rate for 16-and 17-year-old black males is five times higher today than in 1952, when it actually was lower (8%) than comparable white teen-age unemployment. He finds it distressing that "people...