Word: conglomerateurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking at two more potential acquisitions, each of which would cost around $100,000 to $150,000; they may be a way to increase sales and profits without adding to his 24-employee payroll. But Mocha has no dreams of becoming a conglomerateur. "I know the truck-equipment industry," he says. "But if I were to buy a waffle shop, the learning curve would be very high...
...million. But the whole sale made only $41.2 million, which left the house with a net loss of $10 million to $15 million. Even its star picture--a 1916 Modigliani nude whose rosy skin and cute pubic patch would, one might have thought, rouse the cupidity of any redblooded conglomerateur--failed to reach its $10 million estimate...
...close to a century of movie history has not taught us that, then the past year of Roberts' professional history certainly has. For she has become the designated heroine of our redemptive fairy tales. Having taught a workaholic conglomerateur how to love in Pretty Woman and herself how to overcome the battered-wife syndrome in Sleeping with the Enemy, surely she can help Victor come to grips with the sadness of Dying Young...