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"Pan Am" tagline: "They do it all and they do it at 30,000 feet" is about the glory days of air travel, when pilots were Men-with-a-capital-M and stewardesses were every businessman's, um, fantasy.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Playboy Bunnies: Hollywood's Vision of Female Empowerment? Barbara 2011
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"Pan Am" tagline: "They do it all and they do it at 30,000 feet" is about the glory days of air travel, when pilots were Men-with-a-capital-M and stewardesses were every businessman's, um, fantasy.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Playboy Bunnies: Hollywood's Vision of Female Empowerment? Barbara 2011
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Hwang has fun with the businessman's first scene meeting with the officials of Guiyang and even more fun later on in another meeting where the Enron scandal plays an amusing part.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Other Desert Cities" Found On Broadway; "69 S" Lost at BAM; "Chinglish" Doesn't Translate Michael Giltz 2011
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Fedorcio, 58, is a conservative figure, with a rugby player's chest and a businessman's suit, who was given an OBE in 2006.
Phone-hacking spotlight falls on Met PR man, Dick Fedorcio 2011
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But the long-standing practice has come under scrutiny following revelations the prime minister's family Christmas holiday was funded by Egypt's government, and the foreign minister vacationed in Tunisia, hitching a ride on a businessman's jet to avoid violent anti-government protests there.
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The businessman's philanthropic interests also extend to Britain, where he is friends with Geordie Greig, editor of the Evening Standard, and other members of the British establishment.
Alexander Lebedev: profile Mark Tran 2010
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In the bitter U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, a local millionaire has helped launch a barrage of ads attacking the Democratic candidate -- a candidate who, as the state's attorney general, is prosecuting the businessman's nursing home for allegedly covering up sexual abuse, records show.
Michael B. Keegan: A Smoking Gun in Kentucky Michael B. Keegan 2010
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Rosset's private means supported this gambling habit—once readers could get the books, they sold in large quantities—but eventually he succumbed to the successful businessman's fatal flaw: overreach.
He Knew It When He Saw It James Campbell 2012
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The news of the businessman's comeback emerges shortly after Howe escaped censure in May, when John Towers, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards and Peter Beale – the quartet who bought Britain's last independent carmaker for £10 in 2000 – were disqualified from working as company directors in Britain for a total of 19 years.
Chief executive of MG Rover during the Phoenix Four era gets back in business 2011
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"But being a businessman, and having a businessman's interests at heart, I think the fame Jack and I derived from creating Captain America might be overshadowed by the financial success we found in creating the romance market."
'Superheroes': Turning 97 today, JOE SIMON reflects on his legacy with JACK KIRBY (*As do STAN LEE and NEIL GAIMAN) Michael Cavna 2010
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