Word: tycooning
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...Greek telecommunications tycoon and major donor to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is reportedly under investigation for alleged Cold War espionage...
...Minister's oldest daughter, Marina - a vice president of Fininvest - was named boss at Mondadori, Italy's largest publishing house. Opposition leader Francesco Rutelli last week cited what he says is another glaring conflict: a Feb. 11 lunch Berlusconi had with Rupert Murdoch in the midst of the Australian tycoon's bid to expand his Italian cable TV holdings. Rutelli smells a backroom deal and vowed to begin a parliamentary battle to force the ruling center-right majority to put some teeth into its proposed conflict advisory board. Berlusconi's running of the state-owned RAI network has drawn...
...perfected the pop single with his lavishly textured "wall of sound" studio technique, crafting hits for the Ronettes, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, among others. But drugs, booze and paranoia ended the chart-topping reign of the man Tom Wolfe called the "first tycoon of teen." Spector went into seclusion for years and took to running around his hilltop mansion in a Batman costume. Recently he was said to have cleaned up his act. Few were aware, however, that late last summer Spector fired the bodyguard tasked with keeping him off alcohol. At the House...
...elusive tycoon who manages billions of dollars from his private island near St. Thomas has donated $30 million to Harvard to support a newly-recruited professor’s research in mathematical biology...
This theory not only has made Wolf into a TV tycoon but also has changed TV drama itself. Wolf produces three L&O series for NBC (Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) plus a reality series (Crime & Punishment), and he says he already knows what the fourth L&O series will be (we're guessing Law & Order: Hearty Beef with Country Vegetables). The original L&O is a cool-headed procedural and law drama; SVU handles emotion-charged sex-crimes cases; CI is a Columboesque whodunit. But the brand promises certain constants: competent mysteries, intelligent...