Word: spree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often referred to as Japan's Bill Gates. But his $4.5 billion buying spree over the past 18 months has made Masayoshi Son something closer to the Napoleon of the multimedia business. First he swallowed Ziff-Davis, the American computer-magazine giant. Then he bought 37% of Yahoo, the U.S. Internet search-engine company. In June he and another corporate conqueror, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, acquired a 21% interest in TV Asahi, which will be the entrepreneurial duo's base for a 150-station satellite network called Japan Sky Broadcast. And in September, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank paid...
...Liberation Army. But the 2.9 million left still operate more like a force trained to envelop an enemy with sheer numbers than one capable of responding rapidly with 21st century firepower. After watching a whole new way of warfare in the Persian Gulf, senior officers went on a buying spree. They came home last year with 50 Russian attack jets, two Russian destroyers, four diesel submarines and 70 fighter planes...
...chairman of CITIC Pacific, China's most powerful conglomerate in Hong Kong. He is also the eldest son of Rong Yiren, Vice President of the People's Republic. Yung has parlayed those connections into an empire that spans property, aviation, telecommunications and civil works. During the predicted buying spree in Hong Kong before and after the colony reverts to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, Yung, 55, could prove to be Hong Kong's premier shopper...
...when the two flashed their Everyman's credit cards for the press last week, somebody should have checked the dates. The cards were so shiny they might have been minted that morning--and not so Fisher and Mack could go on a shopping spree at Sears. No. They had already been shopping in a much bigger store: the stock market. The cards were part of their quarry, a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter Discover that signals an interest in common folks unprecedented at Morgan Stanley since it split from the J.P. Morgan bank...
...brain trust at Republic are working on feverishly today. Huizenga, who built his trash and video empires via rapid acquisitions, will spend about $250 million next year to build used-car megalots from the ground up. But to complement that investment, he's about to embark on a takeover spree of new-car dealerships...