Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vesco tried again in late 1976, soon after Carter's election. According to court depositions, the financier met in Costa Rica with a trio of Georgians, Attorney Fred E. Bartlett and Businessmen Jerry Dorminey and R. L. Herring. Dorminey and Herring are now awaiting trial in Georgia on charges of fraudulently obtaining $277,000 in loans. At a farmhouse in the mountains, Vesco outlined a preposterous plan. If the Carter Administration would promise him leniency, he would order six Latin American countries under his "control" to support the Panama Canal treaty. Back in the U.S., Bartlett and his law partner...
...range than in the previous downswing (1951-72). We shall have to try dealing with inflation more seriously than we now are. On the other hand, the Kondratieff upswing requires greatly enlarged investments in energy production and conservation, transport, water conservation and development, pollution control. When economists, politicians and businessmen come to understand that these will be our leading growth sectors, and we act to stimulate private and, where necessary, public investment in these directions, unemployment should be low, our growth rate high...
...crackdown on corruption, police arrested a dozen businessmen and former top government officials suspected of embezzlement, land frauds and misappropriations of government funds. The widespread incidence of such corruption was one of the major complaints of opponents of the regime-most notably the religious mullahs (leaders) of the Shi´ite Muslim sect. Among those arrested were three former Cabinet ministers (agriculture, trade and health), and Hojabr Yadzani, who is one of Iran's richest businessmen. A thousand other businessmen were advised that they would not be allowed to leave the country. Said an Iranian banker: "It looks...
...exchange their views face to face on this basic and sensitive issue. At a moment when the U.S. Senate is debating where and how much to reduce taxes, and many states are moving to emulate California's tax-slashing Proposition 13, Time Inc. last week brought 90 top businessmen and economists to Washington for a Conference on Taxation...
Rebates. Visa, which with nearly 60 million holders has overtaken the longtime leader in the field of multipurpose cards, Master Charge (50 million), is testing in several Midwest states an Execu-charge card aimed at big-spending businessmen. Among its attractions: cardholders get a 1% rebate on all charges...