Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Merrill Lynch commodities trader, Markowitz set up his own offices in Washington, New York and Chicago during the early 1980s. A profile published in the Wall Street Journal said that associates described him as "a short, overweight young man who liked to wear jeans and deck shoes to the office and who didn't always pay attention to business details." His empire started to collapse in 1983, when the Internal Revenue Service became suspicious of his dealings...
With one down and the potential winning run only on deck, Bentley's situation certainly hadn't been helped by the sacrifice bunt...
...tailored black flying suit and pearl-handled revolver, Ky was the flamboyant commander of South Viet Nam's air force and for a time the country's Premier and Vice President. As the Communists pressed on Saigon, he commandeered a helicopter and personally flew it to the deck of a U.S. ship. Ky, 54, who has owned several successful liquor stores in California, is planning to join a partnership that will develop Vietnamese fast-food outlets. He has been accused of leading a crime ring involving former South Vietnamese army officers, but is not the target of any investigations...
...were beaten badly," he says. And, since then, the complete three-piece suit on the swim deck has been his trademark...
Most U.S. businessmen are convinced that the Japanese stack the trade deck outrageously against them. Chicago-based FMC sells soda ash, used in glassmaking and other processes, for $70 to $75 a ton in the U.S.; the product sells for $240 to $250 a ton in Japan. But FMC and other U.S. makers are allowed to supply only 200,000 of Japan's annual requirement of 1.4 million tons. Says FMC Chairman Robert H. Malott: "Soda ash is soda ash is soda ash. If that market were truly open, we would have...