Word: ransoming
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...robber barons of yore, command the outraged concern of economic moralists and the titillated attention of the media, ever eager to gossip about the rich and infamous. Think Donald Trump or Bill Gates, or some heroically glamorized combination of the two--after all, Mel Gibson plays Tom in Ransom--and you've got the good idea animating this movie...
FREED. MAMORU KONNO, 57, president of Sanyo Video Components USA Corp., who was kidnapped on Aug. 10 in Mexico; after payment of a $2 million ransom; in Tijuana. The kidnappers remain at large...
KIDNAPPED. MAMORU KONNO, 56, Japanese president of a subsidiary of electronics giant Sanyo; in Tijuana, Mexico. Konno was abducted at gunpoint as he left an employee baseball game. Kidnappers demanded a $2 million ransom...
...press frenzy around the kidnapping--and murder--of the son of hero aviator Charles Lindbergh was the prototype of such end-of-the-century sensations like the O.J.Simpson trial: "By various police leaks the contents of the ransom note and its identifying 'token'--a simple affair used often by criminals of the world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services...[Later] newspapers laid themselves open to the charge of obstructing the child's return. Prime point in question was the publication of the story that the ransom had been paid and that a lookout...
...doesn't get one. As head of filmmaking for the Walt Disney Co., Katzenberg was entitled to 2% of the profits from films and TV shows produced under his watch, says a suit he filed last week against his old employer. That could amount to a Lion King's ransom, because Katzenberg's definition of profits includes much more than income from movie tickets. "By way of example," says the suit, "in 1994 Disney's video re-release of Snow White, an animated feature first released over 50 years earlier, generated gross revenues of some $800 million and profit...