Word: owner
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...down. "You can't run on the fast track with demon rum eating at your stamina," says Sam Wolfe, a recent University of North Carolina law school graduate. "I can't remember a single business meeting in a long time where anybody's had a drink," says Warner LeRoy, owner of New York City's Maxwell's Plum. When someone orders a stiff one, "a mental trigger goes off with other executives at the table," says Jay Chiat, chairman of the Los Angeles-based Chiat/Day advertising firm. "It's not being judgmental; it's just that it's so much...
Three months ago, De Benedetti, through a family holding company, became the principal owner of Industrie Buitoni Perugina, one of Italy's largest food producers. Last week he took another big bite by announcing that he would pay $250 million for 51% of SME, a food subsidiary of IRI, the Italian government's vast holding company. The acquisition package includes more than 14 companies, which have 20,000 employees, operate 300 restaurants and 80 supermarkets as well as plants turning out everything from ice cream to tomato paste. Buitoni and SME together will have annual revenues of $2 billion...
Sticking with one jockey through the entire race, horse and people Owner George Steinbrenner saw his Eternal Prince come in twelfth at Churchill Downs. To be precise, Steinbrenner holds the deed on 37 1/2% of the colt, presumably the part that favors him. At one time he owned the whole animal--fetlock, stock and barrel--but auctioned it off for $17,500 to a used-car dealer from Richmond. For $750,000, George bought back in when his designated Derby horse, Image of Greatness, faltered. You might say, he fired the one and rehired the other. Or, put another...
...last November, the fact that Spend A Buck began his twelve-race career (eight wins) at Florida's Calder Race Course was a delight of its own. Henceforth, at least for a while, "a Calder horse" will no longer serve as racing shorthand for a second-rater. Both the owner and trainer are recent arrivals in the sport, both of Tampa, Fla. Dennis Diaz, who retired from the real estate and insurance businesses four years ago at 38, discovered "there's only so much fishing a man can do." With $12,500, which this industry calls a pittance, he bought...
...bravest. Jason Gilbert, a thoroughly assimilated Jewish Adonis and the school's finest tennis player, surprises all by becoming a superhero in one of Israel's elite antiterrorist units. The last two in Segal's crimson quintet are Townie Theodore Lambros, son of a Greek restaurant owner, who fulfills his ambition to be a Harvard professor; and Banker Andrew Eliot, whose family ties to the university go back 300 years. For the record, the women in the book are all beautiful, intelligent and interchangeable...