Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people considered conventions to be social outlets," says James Low, president of the 6,200-member American Society of Association Executives (which will have its own convention in St. Louis next August). "But with the dawn of Ralph Nader, suddenly everyone was under question. People wanted to know if businessmen were ethical, whether their products were safe. The business world turned in on itself. For the first time businessmen realized they needed their competitors...
...taken with an image. The bulky, rugged vehicles are usually decked with roll bars, high-intensity driving lights, giant tires, formidable grille guards and CB antennas. Four-wheel-drive cars first gained popularity in the West with the off-road set, but now they are driven by housewives and businessmen-and they are seen everywhere, often making the perilous journey to the supermarket...
Clark is only one of many small, imaginative entrepreneurs who are successfully pushing a wide variety of U.S. exports. Hurdling problems of language, complex export red tape and trade barriers that have daunted bigger U.S. businessmen, the new entrepreneurs are shipping some unusual products abroad...
...Europe's money and hurt E.C. economies. Every time the dollar dropped against the strong German mark, it also dropped-less so-against most of Europe's other, not-so-strong currencies. This caused annoying changes in the exchange rates between countries. Export trade was slowed because businessmen had to calculate and recalculate prices, and multinational companies postponed transborder E.C. investments because they could not forecast investment returns easily in their own currency...
...time for the MBTA to stop making dire predictions and launch a supplementary EIS on the changed extension plans before a federal district court orders it to do so. This process would allow Cambridge residents and businessmen to have imput into the project while helping to insure that the extension will run smoothly if hte project is allowed to begin. Regardless of the outcome of the EIS--whether the extension is found to be environmentally safe or not--the interests of the community should be met in the process...