Word: tycooning
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...June Hartwell assembled a $156 million package to pay for both modern printing plants and severance for hundreds of his workers. Faced with a money squeeze this month, Hartwell sold a 35% stake to Hollinger Argus, Ltd., a Toronto-based mining firm owned mostly by Conrad Black, a Canadian tycoon whose holdings range from radio stations to supermarkets. Black, who had acquired 14% of the shares in June, ended up winning control of the paper. Though Hartwell remains chairman and editor in chief, Black has appointed Andrew Knight, the editor of the Economist, as the paper's chief executive. During...
...Hills reception, flashing a smile and chatting comfortably with the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dino De Laurentiis. Stars and studio bosses had all turned out. The party, in honor of Murdoch and his wife Anna, was the perfect opportunity for everyone to size up the Australian-born newspaper tycoon who has become America's newest video czar...
...narrator of this drowsy thriller, now being whooped as a likely best seller, is a U.S. journalist who specializes in the Soviet Union. An old love has asked him to help find her missing stepfather, a Canadian tycoon. As the hero searches, he unravels the mystery of her birth and the farfetched identity of her aristocratic Russian mother...
...almost no English. Starting as dishwashers, busboys and street food vendors, newcomers gradually manage to save enough money to open simple restaurants. Featuring dishes that are novel and generally inexpensive, immigrants get a foothold that can lead to the sort of success enjoyed by Rocky Aoki, the Japanese tycoon behind the Benihana restaurant chain and frozen-food company...
...whom the Statue of Liberty traditionally welcomed to New York Harbor. But the newcomers disembarking at Kennedy Airport or Miami or Los Angeles also include the successful. Baron Guy de Rothschild, for example, recently took refuge in New York City from the vagaries of French Socialism. Australia's publishing tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who has made a deal to buy seven television stations in the U.S., announced in May that he would become a U.S. citizen. The roster of Soviet immigrants includes not only the black-garbed babushkas huddled over their knitting in Brooklyn's Little Odessa but such artists...