businesspeople

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At lunchtime on a recent weekday, businesspeople in suits sat at white-tablecloth tables in the main dining room, where the walls are wrapped in cherry-wood wainscoting and heavy blue curtains frame the windows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Prominent businesspeople popped by to pose with flowers.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

Department of Justice in January charged former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao in an alleged bribery scheme involving local businesspeople David Trung Duong and Andy Hung Duong.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

The House Oversight Committee last week released thousands of documents from their Epstein investigation, including emails that mentioned Trump and other prominent politicians and businesspeople.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson