Word: businesswoman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hopes that this time the government will listen to what she calls "God's plan for Haiti." She has a notebook full of plans and drawings of a new Haiti, all created through what she calls "intelligent design." Brutus, a Seventh-Day Adventist who works in Miami as a businesswoman, says she has to wait for God's permission to reveal the plans in detail. "Haiti will be a light in the world. What needs to be done, not a human can do it," she says. "There will be seven years of abundance, and Haiti will be a world wonder...
Ilitch, 55, bills herself as a self-made businesswoman. Also trained as a lawyer, Ilitch worked for her family's pizza and sports enterprise before launching her own jewelry company. She also co-owns a local lifestyle magazine called Ambassador. She is a fixture on Detroit's civic scene, joining Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's transition team last year and frequently challenging some of his top advisers to make deeper budget cuts. "She zeroed in on the finance piece as her baby, trying to get them to think through how to make immediate cuts," recalls a person familiar with...
...would like to say that writer/director Nancy Meyers' film is cause for celebration, but it's a bit more complicated than that. Meyers has written some astute scenes about aging and regret, heartbreak and hope. In the role of a successful businesswoman - Jane owns and operates an upscale bakery/café - who finds herself in the unlikely position of having an affair with her ex-husband, Streep is radiant, funny and endearingly vulnerable...
...fodder for “The Devil Wears Prada,” a book and major motion picture centered on an unnecessarily cruel caricature of a boss—one part business savvy, three parts bloodthirst. Yet “The September Issue” showcases a witty, driven businesswoman with a demanding work ethic, not unlike that of Cutler himself.“My training was fairly intensive,” Cutler recalls of his involvement in the arts at Harvard during the 80s. Working towards a special concentration in Dramatic Theory and Literature, he cut his teeth...
...surprised to hear that your parents didn't support your involvement. You have to understand that the traditional role of women in my family had been to take care of the children and the home. Even my grandmother, who had been a businesswoman and a medical missionary in China, resumed that role when they returned. (See pictures of Billy Graham, America's pastor...