Word: moguls
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...many others. Closed in 1980 for repairs, the rink over the next six years became a paradigm of the fouled-up city construction project, complete with horror stories of bureaucratic fumbling and outrageous expense. Not until last July, when New York Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump, 40, whose fortune has been estimated at upwards of a billion dollars, took over the job of rebuilding the 33,000-sq.-ft. rink, did Wollman show signs of being completed in time for the 1986-87 skating season. Trump offered Mayor Edward Koch a deal: let him have a crack...
More often, Lauren manages to find a lucrative combination of what he likes and what will sell, a spectrum that has ranged from Polo shirts to his Santa Fe collection. In terms of his standing in the industry, he has become fashion's equivalent of an old-time movie mogul who creates, directs and lives out his own view of high style. Lauren possesses the financial and personal clout to put his name on just about any product, or roomful of products, he pleases...
...Fourth of July festivities. The second President did not, of course, know about the Statue of Liberty, much less Hollywood mini-series or the value of a rating point. But David Wolper, the actual executive producer of Liberty Weekend, likes to cite Adams as a kind of 18th century mogul in a powdered wig. Were Wolper to stage a historical scroll of credits for his extravaganza honoring the Statue of Liberty's restoration, he might even see fit to list Adams as a creative consultant...
Convoluting the plot further, Stone's middle-aged mistress and her dumb-stud pal decide to blackmail the fashion mogul. While trying to videotape Stone murdering his wife, they succeed only in filming the local police chief with a prostitute in his car. Here, the movie attempts to develop the characters, depicting the plotting woman and her friend as too sensitive to watch the alleged murder on the videotape...
Special benefits have been a feature of tax law for generations. They were long known as Louis B. Mayer rules because one of the first applied only to that Hollywood mogul. Nowadays they go by the name of transition rules, because they mainly keep open for a while, and for specific companies, tax loopholes that Congress is closing for everybody else. Collectively, the transition rules proposed by the Finance Committee would cost the Federal Government $5.5 billion in lost taxes, a relative pittance compared with the $25 billion of special favors in the bill passed by the House last year...