Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another student will ranch in Montana. Another will travel on a freighter up and down the East coast; another will travel to Europe on a tuna boat...
...Estate Investment of Boynton Beach, Fla., which he said was an offshoot of Abdul Enterprises, and began lining up investment opportunities for Sheik Rahman. The sheik, Meltzer told local businessmen, would lend huge sums to entrepreneurs for promising new ventures; he promised $95 million to one businessman for four tuna boats. But Meltzer demanded that the businessmen first pay him finder's fees. He collected...
...college campuses by promotion that wildly misrepresents what they should expect out of the education itself. She deplores current marketing strategies such as the "Fly Adelphi" campaign, or Findlay College's "It's great to be a big fish in a small college" recruitment package, featuring Charley the Tuna. College marketting spawns pseudo-events like meetings on curriculum reform, which, she feels, are "principally planned, planted or excited for the purpose of being reported or reproduced...The harsh truth is that all this activity is generally a waste of time as far as providing better education for students...