Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporation considered whether to replace Blum with an academic or to maintain its mix of two lawyers, two businessmen, and two academics, but decided that during the capital campaign the extra businessman would help, Putnam said. He added that Heiskell would probably not serve for more than five or six years...
...Derek Bok said he feels that because he is from academic circles he has less frequent opportunities to get to know businessmen," Procter said...
...Under Secretary Luther Hodges Jr., son of Kennedy's Commerce Secretary, and Anthony Solomon, the Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Both have the qualifications believed to be uppermost in Carter's mind: expertise in economics and the ability to work well with American businessmen, which Kreps did with grace and considerable skill...
...with the photo was a scathing, ten-point "interrogation" about his alleged wheeling and dealing, apparently handwritten by Sindona under duress. The questions demand detailed information from Guzzi about illegal deals that Sindona reportedly conducted through his banks on behalf of some of Italy's leading politicians and businessmen, and the Vatican to boot. Guzzi is instructed in the note to be ready-if he is telephoned by one of the captors-to reply to all of the questions within ten minutes...
...length and depth of this slump will be largely determined by monetary policy. In the eight weeks since Paul Volcker took over as Federal Reserve chairman, businessmen's basic cost of borrowing money has jumped from 11.75% to 13.5%, the highest in history. Most board members hold that the increases will soon stop but interest rates will remain steep over the next year. Some fear that the Fed may worsen the recession by inducing a classic credit crunch, in which little money is available for borrowing to finance new plants and create jobs...