Word: industrialistic
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...Iranian mission at the U.N. sent a delicious shudder through Foggy Bottom. Castro's release of imprisoned Americans was viewed as an effort to soothe troubled waters for whoever wins the Oval Office-but Castro wants Carter. The word leaked out that Armand Hammer, the U.S. industrialist and buddy of Brezhnev's, came straight from Moscow last week with a secret letter of peaceful portents from the Soviet President for his American counterpart. Begin's slight shift on the Palestinians seemed designed to burnish his U.S. image before the big ballot. All of these events...
...Industrialist Justin Dart, one of the most conservative members of Reagan's California coterie, seems dead right when he says, "No politician on the face of the earth can function without some compromises. But Ronald Reagan makes fewer than the others. The only compromises he will make as President are those that are forced on him." And Stuart Spencer, a top strategist on Reagan...
...widespread, it is passive by U.S. standards. Job classifications are loosely defined, and workers will do any task, even sweeping the floor, without prodding, loss of face or initiating a grievance procedure with the union. The goal of labor-management relations was enunciated by Japan's premier industrialist, Konosuke Matsushita, founder of the company that makes Panasonic electrical products: "Harmony over opposition." The last strike, at Toyota in 1955, involved a fight over reducing the work force. The dispute was concluded when the entire board of directors resigned in apology. Wages increased 212% from 1970 to 1978, and when...
Loud-mouthed presidential brothers are nothing new, however. One has to go back to the Eisenhower era to find a president whose siblings kept their shenanigans in the shade. And even Ike's brother Edgar, a highbrow industrialist from Tacoma, Washington, liked to get in his digs at his brother the president. "Edgar's been criticizing me since I was five," Ike once joked at a press conference...
...most glaring case was Saudi Industrialist Ghaith Pharaon's ploy to hook up with the Georgia good-ole-boy network. The Saudi financier bought from President Carter's former Budget Director and confidant Bert Lance most of his shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million, a price far above the market value; other Arab moneymen reportedly arranged a loan for Lance of about $3.5 million. In another case, a group of Arabs, led by a shadowy sheik named Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi internal intelligence, touched off a confusing imbroglio in Washington...