Word: suliman
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Just as important for Suleiman's choice was Brody's strategy of rebuilding a department that five years ago suffered what Suliman calls "a problem of what one might call understaffing...
With his short, grizzled hair and dour expression, he looks more like the head of a Soviet trade mission than a Saudi businessman with far-flung interests and resources. He owns no jets or yachts, and is never seen at the playgrounds of the rich. Suliman Olayan, 62, is instead a self-made, thoroughly westernized entrepreneur who, among other activities, has been quietly using a cash surplus of about $300 million to buy big stakes in more than 60 U.S. companies...