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Richard "Skip" Bronson
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american businessman”. Today it says “american businessman and real estate developer”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Richard D. "Skip" Bronson is an American businessman, real estate developer, and author of the Los Angeles Times best-selling War At The Shore: Steve Wynn, Donald Trump and the Epic Battle to Save Atlantic City.1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american businessman”. Today it says “american businessman and real estate developer”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
american businessman
Now
american businessman and real estate developer
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