Word: tycoon
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...style of repression may now be returning. Russian President Vladimir Putin is unleashing his wrath on the oligarchs who picked up much of the power that the Communist Party dropped a decade ago. Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire business tycoon, is in self-imposed exile, while his close associate Nikolai Glushkov, former vice president of Aeroflot, is being interrogated in Lefortovo prison. Media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky was arrested in Spain on demands from Moscow. The Spanish government's decision on his extradition to Russia is pending...
...Production Problem: The availability of raw materials at the North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what with all the pro bono work. Counter-argument: Santa could be the Rupert Murdoch cross Willie Wonka of toy sellers: a big-hearted tyrant tycoon with his own slave-race. 3) The Flying Reindeer Problem: Reindeer don't usually fly. Counter-Argument: The sleigh itself could run on some sort of solid fuel rocket that pushes the passive reindeer (rocket power being the only other possible means of movement other than whatever made...
...film, George Bailey never gets out of Bedford Falls. His brother Harry goes off to war and wins the Medal of Honor and his friend Sam Wainwright becomes a business tycoon. But George struggles to support his wife and children. And when the debts pile up and things look black, George finds himself on the railing of a bridge, ready to leap...
Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li seemed to be walking on air last March when he used his 10-month-old start-up, Pacific Century CyberWorks, to acquire the territory's dominant telecommunications company, Cable & Wireless HKT. The $35.9 billion merger was the largest in Asia outside Japan. Analysts fell over one another to issue buy recommendations on CyberWorks' stock, which they predicted would soar into the stratosphere. Whoops! Put a hold on that order. Six months later, analysts say the new firm's strategy of linking broadband Internet services to an Old World telco is no longer so compelling...
...home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with contributions from Warner Bros., the Humane Society of the U.S. and cell-phone tycoon Craig McCaw; and the environmental group Earth Island Institute organized the project...