Word: industrialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...return, he was greeted by Czech crowds chanting "Bata! Bata! Bata!" Local officials gave the Canadian industrialist a haunting tour of the giant factory that his late father had built. Dilapidated, the aging shoe factory still turns out footwear on the machinery installed by his family nearly a half-century ago. Bata plans to renovate the factory as part of a joint venture. Forty years after being driven out of his country, Thomas Bata is a returning hero...
...June 6, when police seized Susanne Albrecht, 39, one of some two dozen R.A.F. members on West Germany's most wanted list. Albrecht, who is married to an East German scientist, is accused of taking part in the 1977 killings of Jurgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank, and industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. East German Interior Minister Peter- Michael Diestel said the arrests provided evidence of a "devilish connection" between the R.A.F. and the Stasi -- a connection that is now certain to be further investigated...
...Gossamer Condor, a kitelike affair propelled only by a furiously pedaling cyclist-pilot, flew in controlled flight for more than a mile around a figure-eight course. For that feat, unsuccessfully attempted by dozens of others over the previous 18 years, MacCready won a $95,000 prize from British industrialist Henry Kremer. Two years later the same pilot pedaled an improved version of the ephemeral craft, the Gossamer Albatross, all the way across the English Channel to earn MacCready a second Kremer prize...
...McCrary, with Safire in tow, rushed to Washington to advise industrialist Bernard Goldfine how to contain the scandal over his gift of a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief of staff. As McCrary tells it, Safire crawled across an outside window ledge on an upper floor of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel to nab an assistant to columnist Drew Pearson and a congressional investigator bugging Goldfine's room...
...under Zia. Among the party's first acts after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab, an opposition-ruled province where more than 60% of Pakistanis live. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a crony of Zia's. Privately, Bhutto's confidants justified the failed assault by arguing that Nawaz Sharif won only by rigging Punjab's elections, a view not supported by most impartial observers...