Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four years ago TIME compiled a portfolio of 200 Americans under 45 who seemed destined to be national leaders (TIME, July 15, 1974). They included educators, businessmen, lawyers, scientists and a number of men and women who had embarked upon-or were about to begin -political careers. In this month's election, 22 of them ran for high public office and all but three of them...
Absolutely. Roosevelt kept businessmen around him like Frank Knox and Jesse Jones. Truman followed the same model. Who would be like that on the scene today? I'll be very blunt: Henry Ford II. He knows how to handle labor...
Peking may never rival Paris as a fixture on the international travel circuit, but the gradual parting of the Bamboo Curtain in the 1970s has enabled more and more foreigners to see the wonders of the Middle Kingdom. This year, 100,000 foreign tourists and businessmen-including 15,000 Americans?will visit China, and next year the total could double. What most visitors bring back, besides snapshots of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, are horror stories about the accommodations. Hotel rooms are hard to get, ah" conditioning is rare, and such Western amenities as bars, saunas and swimming...
...family gerbils like the trip from Pittsburgh to Washington when she served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1972-73? Macho editors, who would never put such a question to a man, still send women's page reporters to interview her, and well-meaning businessmen still give her head-patting lectures to explain balance sheets. Whitman smiles at the condescension and responds with her ultimate putdown: a stunning soliloquy on international economics...
...what Cambridge leaders, citizens and businessmen say about their neighborhoods may not be the deciding factor. For if the MBTA does end up in federal court, there will be delays. Half a billion dollars in promised federal aid may be lost because, as Kiley aptly stated, "Uncle Sam does not hesitate to take funds not being used at the local level and put them on the nearest squeaky wheel that comes along...