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...TRUMP TRUMPED TRUMP...
Four months ago, when Donald Trump arranged for his publicly held Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc. to buy his privately held Trump's Castle casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for $490 million, shareholders howled that they had been taken by the less than self-effacing subject of Trump:The Art of the Deal to the tune of some $100 million. Trump Hotels stock dropped 30% over the following weeks. More bad news rolled in when a reported $600 million deal to sell half of the Castle to the London-based Rank Organization and transform it into a Hard Rock...
...does not already own. The merged company, to be called Concert, taking the name of a joint venture between the two, would have $42 billion in revenues and match AT&T in market value. The new colossus, boasts MCI chairman Bert Roberts, "will trump the competition as we open up communications markets both domestically and around the world...
...Mullen is one of those bucaneer billionaires who, like the 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...
Running against a G.O.P. incumbent in a heavily Republican district, Sanders hopes to turn his underdog status into a trump card. He refuses money from political-action committees, emphasizes the environment and says that though he is in favor of limiting the amount of state land in federal hands, he'll fight for more wilderness designations than his opponent supports...