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...devaluation of the Russian ruble before the August 1998 financial meltdown. Illarionov is also credited with playing an important role in making the 13 percent flat income tax a reality. From the outset of Putin?s presidency, Illarionov struggled to curb state interference in the economy and oppose the monopolist economic policies of natural gas, electricity and railway corporations...
...only person who seems likely to lose out in the new Macau is former monopolist Ho. "Stanley Ho is going to have to change his thinking," warns Adelson. Maybe. But Ho's daughter, Pansy Ho, an STDM director, is negotiating with MGM Mirage, the world's biggest casino operator, for a possible alliance. Ho is building a second, $250 million Lisboa across the street from the original. And he is also constructing a $140 million amusement park called Fisherman's Wharf, set to open later this year on a pier jutting into Macau's harbor. "We want to show Chinese...
...Monopolist. Bully. Cowboy. John Malone has heard it all before. As he dominated the U.S. cable-TV industry for much of the past three decades, the CEO of Denver-based TeleCommunications Inc. (TCI) was called plenty of names, including some that can't be printed here...
...court-ordered breakup. Then an appeals court reversed the breakup order while keeping intact much of the lower court's anti-Microsoft rulings. Two weeks ago, the Justice Department, answering to a new President and distracted by Sept. 11, hastily inked an antitrust agreement in which the monopolist basically agreed to play nice. Now, with only minor changes to that deal, nine of the 19 original litigants, including New York, Ohio and Illinois, have found they too can do business with Mr. Bill. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft foots their legal costs but doesn't admit any wrongdoing...
Stonesifer gets some advice on funding decisions from Bill Jr. and his wife Melinda. She is quick to deny one criticism: that their philanthropy is designed in part to generate good press for Microsoft and counter the perception that it's a big, bad monopolist. Bill Gates comes from a family with a long philanthropic tradition, she says, and when he was growing up, charity was "kitchen-table stuff...