Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be under an obligation to do him future favors. Another notion was that when a debt gets big enough, the creditor acquires an interest in the survival and prosperity of the debtor. "If you get into anybody far enough," he often said, "you've got yourself a partner."* Estes got far enough into Commercial Solvents, a New York chemical manufacturer, which did become a sort of partner. It was this partnership that enabled Estes to get into big-time wheeling and dealing...
...abandon his ambitions. Fanfani then released the 40-odd votes he controlled. As applause greeted the tally that clinched Segni's election, Fanfani stared sullenly into the television camera. Taking defeat more gracefully was Segni's closest open opponent, moderate Social Democrat Giuseppe Saragat, who, as a partner in the government coalition, may be named Foreign Minister to fill Segni's now vacant position...
Even by Texas standards. Billie Sol Estes stood out as a spectacular example of a man who got very rich very quick. At 37, he owned or was a partner in some three dozen businesses, including grain-storage facilities, a fertilizer firm, cotton plantations, a newspaper and even a funeral parlor. Estimates of his fortune ran as high as $150 million...
...near the Pare de Montsouris. He may work standing for a while; more often, he sits grandly on a divan and calls for his brushes and colors like a surgeon calling for his scalpels and clamps. This week he will be 80-the same age as his ebullient former partner, Pablo Picasso...
...leads many businessmen to question the right of the President to accuse steel companies of being inflationary when they seek price increases. The likeliest sources of inflation in the U.S., argue the President's business critics, are Government spending and the federal budget deficit. Says Walter Maynard, a partner in Wall Street's Shearson, Hammill & Co.: "Mr. Kennedy's moral position would be stronger if he operated his Government at a surplus...