Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early April, after Hanoi announced that all free enterprise in the South had been abolished, the major exodus began. This belated effort to stamp out the vestiges of capitalism was a particular blow to the Chinese, who have long been among South Viet Nam's most thriving businessmen and black marketeers. In the enclave of Cholon, the Chinatown of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Chinese merchants had succeeded in cornering the trade in black-market rice, as well as such luxury goods as American bourbon, Algerian orange juice, German cameras and Tiger Balm from Hong Kong. Ideologically outraged...
...taken a long time, but at last Jimmy Carter is doing a lot of talking with businessmen. Though he created a million-dollar agribusiness, he is a rural populist, and so he has been suspicious of big interests, including corporations. In just the past several months, however, the President has come to believe that many business chiefs are much like himself?up from the bottom, and not without compassion?and that they may have some provocative ideas about his No, 1 domestic problem: the economy...
What we should do, he says, is enact ambitious but limited ones. Jones asks fellow businessmen to support the CETA (for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) programs, which subsidize companies to hire and train the unskilled young. He applauds Carter's call for $400 million in the '79 budget to expand that work...
...ruling heartened many American businessmen who have become increasingly annoyed at the eight-year-old OSHA'S unscheduled safety inspection visits. U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Richard Lesher called the decision a "blow for freedom," and the National Association of Manufacturers greeted it as "good news...
...were cheerfully anteing up as much as $3,000 each for air fare and accommodations besides. German television networks flew over 14 tons of equipment for broadcast of Cup play and planned to supply more than 114 hours of coverage. Local television sales have been booming for months; some businessmen expected that final sales figures for the first quarter of this year would show a 55% increase over those of 1977. Worldwide, as many as 1.5 billion people may watch some portion of the Cup play-the largest television audience since the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...