Word: oilman
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Graham first met the younger Bush in 1985, when the two men took a fateful walk on the beach in Maine that helped set the then 40-year-old Texas oilman on a path that led him to Christ. But of all his presidential friends, Graham was perhaps personally closest to the President?s father, who is now 83. The two men met in the 1960s and vacationed together often. Graham was also close to George H.W. Bush?s mother, Dorothy Walker Bush, who died...
...have known who George Grizzard was; renown on the stage (he won a Tony for Best Actor in A Delicate Balance) doesn't translate to mass fame as it once did. But whether you saw him as an oilman in Comes a Horseman with Jane Fonda, as an imperious lawyer on Law and Order or the ghost of Rue McClanahan's husband (a recurring role!) on The Golden Girls, you knew that that actor was those people. As Andre Bishop told the Los Angeles Times, "What was remarkable about his acting was he didn't seem to be acting...
...Tropicana is the one place in São Tomé that's nearly always open. Lately, that has made it the venue of choice for a new kind of customer. "British riggers, Scandinavian geologists, Japanese diplomats, you name it," says Salvaterra. "You just missed a big-time Nigerian oilman." He nods at the room and rubs his thumb against his forefingers. "Those tables are seeing some deals...
...advise such security-conscious businesses as Entergy (a leading U.S. nuclear power plant operator) and Broadwater Energy (which hopes to build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal in New York's Long Island Sound). With the other hand, the company began reaching out to such key Bush supporters as oilman T. Boone Pickens, investor Thomas Hicks and the Bass family...
...philanthropist. He is also one of America's wealthiest men. His scrappy individualism and spectacular feats of corporate derring-do are the stuff of John Wayne-style legend and its modern equivalent, a television mini-series (NBC's May On Wings of Eagles). Says a close Perot friend, Dallas Oilman Tom Meurer: "Ross likes to carry banners where nobody else will." Agrees Perot's sister Bette: "Ross feels you don't manage people, you lead them...