Word: sprees
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Person of the Week CANCELLED He took Vivendi Universal on a corporate buying spree, trying to transform a staid, provincial French utilities firm into a multinational media giant. But Jean-Marie Messier overreached and Vivendi's stock price collapsed, leading to his dismissal as company chairman last week...
...husband recently met Tomy Winata, one of the country's wealthiest ethnic-Chinese businessmen and a man known for his close ties to the gambling underworld. Taufik and some family members (but not Megawati) were vacationing on an island owned by Winata. Taufik also famously conducted a prolonged shopping spree in New York City with Jacob Nursalim, the nephew of Syamsul Nursalim, one of Indonesia's largest debtors. Indeed, as TIME wrapped up an interview with Taufik at his home on a recent Saturday morning, Jacob could be seen waiting in the wings, tying the shoes of Taufik's three...
...known throughout France as J2M is a former water-company executive who became a French business celebrity by turning the sleepy water utility Compagnie Generale des Eaux into a $51 billion global media giant, Vivendi Universal. Messier did it with a six-year buying spree that brought Universal Studios, USA networks and a number of European media and telecom companies into the fold. His promise was to create a company that "will be the world's preferred creator and provider of personalized information, entertainment and services to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices...
...York City, coastal New Hampshire, Nantucket and Boca Raton, Fla.; and a small stake in the New Jersey Devils and the New Jersey Nets. Most important, in the past decade, he paid more than $60 billion for 200 major corporate acquisitions and hundreds of smaller ones--a frenzied shopping spree that helped turn Tyco, once a sleepy, industrial-parts manufacturer with $3 billion in annual sales, into a global colossus that pulled in $36 billion last year, selling items as diverse as diapers and fire alarms...
...different sort. As he prepared to board the aircraft, Moroccan agents swooped in and led him away. They believe that a second fake passport and thousands of dollars in undeclared currency they found in Al Tbaiti's bags help explain his true purpose in the country: organizing a terror spree aimed at killing American citizens as well as Moroccan Jews...