Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge City Council voted to join a citizen group's suit demanding an injunction against extension of the Red Line through Harvard Square by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). The council's vote, indicative of the growing sense of frustration felt by some Cambridge leaders, residents and businessmen, appears to be a well-directed step to ensure that citizens' views are not diregarded in the extension process...
...There are many Navajo businessmen who would like to open small businesses, but are unable to obtain loans from off reservation because it is illegal to come on the reservation and foreclose property. It is up to the tribe to provide a base for business developments which are in line with Navajo cultural values, so that you don't have someone creating a bunch of McDonalds but instead have people serving their own people," Williams adds...
...world that would have been inconceivable under Mao. At the Canton Trade Fair, Peking's main foreign trade showcase, the Chinese sold approximately $1 billion in goods to foreign countries, while their purchases amounted to about $600 million. According to the National Council for U.S.-China Trade, American businessmen sold the Chinese some $83 million in commodities, mostly industrial chemicals, and bought $62 million worth of textiles and arts and crafts, doubling the previous record of $75 million at the fair last year. The U.S. will probably sell the Chinese $700 million worth of products in all this year...
...cost has risen sharply since then as business has found it progressively more difficult and more expensive to meet the tougher and tougher standards coming into effect. Small businessmen and big companies are only now beginning to feel the high costs of complying with far-ranging regulations like the 1975 Hazardous Materials Transportation Act and the 1976 Toxic Substances...
These estimates are contested by the pro-regulation lobby, which consists of some consumerists, some labor leaders and many of the regulators themselves. They argue that the costs of regulation are inflated by businessmen. They also claim that such calculations fail to take into account the hidden costs of dirty and dangerous production and do not allow for the social and invisible economic benefits of regulations. How, they ask, can anybody put a price tag on life and health? What is a few billion dollars here or there if thousands more workers will not suffer and die from cotton-dust...