We have a foreign businessman who made an illegal contribution to the Democratic party.

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President Ezer Weizman, two years into his second five-year term, is on the verge of resigning after disclosures that he received money from a foreign businessman while serving as a minister or Knesset member in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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The new businessman in new Egypt turns out, usually, to be the foreign-educated son or nephew of an old operator in old Egypt.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Egypt: New sons, old fathers | The

In July it bought four discount superstores and six undeveloped sites from a local businessman in South Korea, which at the moment is about as unpromising a market for foreign retailers as it is possible to imagine.

ECONOMIST: Asian retailing