Word: industrialistic
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...recovered from this rather quickly, as she did from all her relationships. At 39 she married her second husband, producer Leland Hayward. . Six months after his death in 1971, she moved on to the industrialist and diplomat Averell Harriman, with whom she had had an affair in her youth. It was as Mrs. Harriman that she became the Democratic Party's most celebrated fund raiser...
...eager to turn to Russia for help. And to make that rapprochement, they are looking to Kuchma, a former director of the world's largest missile factory, whose production lines once cranked out giant nuclear-delivery systems "like sausages," as Nikita Khrushchev boasted in the 1950s. The erstwhile industrialist won 52% of the vote, inflicting a shocking defeat on Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine in breaking ties with Moscow, then spent the next three years quarreling with Russia, thwarting reform and cultivating ties with the West...
...right and publicly reaffirmed his desire that Germany and Russia carve up Poland between them. While the German press denounced him as "Russia's Hitler," Zhirinovsky blissfully continued his holiday in a remote village in the Austrian Alps, where he paid a call on his friend Edwin Neuwirth, an industrialist who has denied that the Nazis used gas chambers to kill Jews during World War II and has told reporters he was "proud" to have served in Hitler's military corps, the Waffen...
...Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it was rumored to be worth $40 million. In 1987 Chrysler paid $25 million for Lamborghini, mostly as a vanity nameplate; in recent years it has lost money. The buyer was Megatech, a Bermuda-based holding company owned jointly by Jakarta industrialist Setiawan Djody and Hutomo Mandala Putra, a son of Indonesian President Suharto...
...promised an orderly return to democratic rule. He created two political parties and wrote their platforms: the Social Democratic Party tilted a bit to the left, the National Republican Convention leaned the same degree to the right. He handpicked their presidential candidates. But when Moshood Abiola, the millionaire industrialist candidate of the Social Democrats, won the election and insisted that he be sworn in as President on Aug. 27, Babangida voided the vote, claiming widespread fraud and vote tampering...