businessman
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The U.S. sanctions against Mado also targeted a Chinese businessman named Ma Jie for helping supply parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
It is unclear whether the Russian businessman is currently living in Sweden.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
As a graduate of Harvard and NYU, he has a broad education; as a businessman, a knowledge of administration.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Among the deceased were Roger Duarte, a 42-year-old Miami restaurateur and seafood businessman, as well as pilot Josh Outram, a fourth-generation Kenyan and wildlife conservationist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
This man didn’t look like a misplaced tourist or businessman.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger, successful businessmen by any measure, paid $12.5 billion for the Lakers, easily the highest price ever for a sports franchise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
That’s because the group bought the team in 2010 for an estimated $480 million from American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The two often present, especially in court documents, as simple businessmen just trying to make money.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Guo Wengui, who was once believed to be one of China's richest businessmen, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail in the US for running a billion dollar scam.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
It was mainly the wealthier Europeans who became land barons, plantation owners, and successful businessmen in the colonies.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
