Word: businesswoman
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Natasha Gurfinkel had moxie. Nothing if not aggressive as a senior vice president in charge of the Bank of New York's East European division, the Russian-born, Princeton-educated businesswoman charmed and cajoled, wined and dined her way to the forefront of the correspondent banking business in the heady days of Russia's breakaway from communism. Muscling out American rivals through her web of Moscow connections, she turned the Bank of New York into the biggest U.S. servicer of Russian accounts, moving along the flood tide of cash rolling out of the ebullient new economy in return for lucrative...
...healthy heterosexual businesswoman. I can be as feminine as Marilyn Monroe, and I can be as energized as Jackie Chan. I am blessed with lots of estrogen and testosterone! I think of myself as a modern-day warrior. YVONNE SIET Hong Kong...
...global enterprise of the Estee Lauder Cos. is centered on the 40th floor of the General Motors Building in Manhattan. Here the realm of very Big Business meets the world of Estee Lauder--intensely refined, every woman's dream office. It has been the office of a businesswoman and mother, where work and family mingled seamlessly for decades in a major corporation--the Holy Grail of many working women today (her grandchildren are in key positions). Carol Phillips, who founded the Clinique line for the company, describes Lauder's management style as highly creative. She conducted business in subtly elegant...
...Businesswoman Dorothy Pitman Hughes brought a spirit of financial independence when she moved to New York City from a home she shared with 10 siblings in Lumpkin, Ga., 30 years ago. By starting her own office-supplies business, Hughes taught her three daughters the principle of entrepreneurship she had found indispensable growing up black in a segregated community. "We ran our own stores, our own schools," Hughes says. "I wanted my daughters to understand that self-sufficiency...
DALE YOUNG A Scarsdale, N.Y., businesswoman and friend to both Lewis and Lewinsky, she told the grand jury and later Newsweek that during a hike through the Catskills on Memorial Day weekend in 1996, Lewinsky divulged that while she and the President shared bouts of "intimate touching" near the Oval Office and some heated late-night phone calls, as a rule they stopped short of sexual climax. It was Clinton's preference. "It was basically like foreplay," Young concluded. "Nothing was ever taken to completion." The President "felt it really wasn't oral sex if it wasn't completed...