Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raised by a nearly bankrupt Skid Row florist, Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Seymour spends each day slaving away in Mushnik's shop, kept alive by his two loves: botany and Audrey (Ellen Greene), the dipsy platinum blonde store clerk. One day Seymour buys a mysterious plant from a Chinese merchant--a plant we later learn has come from outer space with intent to conquer the world...
...Hamilton said, "The President says he doesn't know, and I assume he is telling the truth. The fact is that after weeks of investigation, we know relatively little about that diversion." He added that his committee hopes to hear from foreign participants, including Israeli officials and Saudi Arms Merchant Adnan Khashoggi...
...Sunday afternoon Kimche took McFarlane and North to a meeting in a London apartment. The Iranian contact turned out to be not very direct: it was not a government official but Ghorbanifar, the expatriate arms dealer. Yaacov Nimrodi, an Israeli arms merchant, was also present. Kimche had represented Ghorbanifar as being politically astute, but McFarlane found him to be a "man of no integrity" who was obsessed with arms and insensitive to the political concerns of the U.S. McFarlane returned to Washington and gave a pessimistic report to the NSC. Shultz was traveling in Europe but sent advice...
...best way for government to meet that modest mission was to be a stabilizing influence. One should not forget that it was Eisenhower who first noted and tagged the "military-industrial complex," while it was Reagan, who, through the well-charted link of his Cabinet officials to Bectel, arms merchant to the Middle East, is now famous for institutionalizing that fearsome coalition...
Padi is thought to be the first Egyptian mummy to come to the United States with its complete burial set. He arrived at MGH in 1823 as the gift of a Dutch merchant, Jacob Van Lennep, an MGH spokesman said...