Word: tycooning
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However, GM, the only suitor to emerge this fall, has said it's no longer interested; another potential suitor, Russian tycoon Oleg Deripeska, is fighting to keep his own empire from being shredded by economic distress. Renault-Nissan, a third potential suitor, is pulling back in the face of what its chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, has warned could be a long global downturn...
...adapt, he turned virtually all of them - The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Handmaid's Tale - into parables of class inequity and betrayed alliances. (He also did a starchy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon and, for his last script, an ugly botch of the Anthony Shaffer thriller Sleuth.) He directed other men's plays, notably Simon Gray's (Butley), and appeared frequently onstage and screen. The man kept busy...
...officer, who smilingly approved every loan, even if your need were bizarre and your collateral nonexistent? Wouldn't your soul be soothed if Will Smith were a Treasury agent who gave you a six-month extension on the pile you owe the IRS? You needn't be a financial tycoon to get a home- or pension-saving Christmas gift - not when these two stars are playing Santa...
...best interests of most Thais in mind. Abhisit has had a hard time gaining some farmers' support because he was born and educated in privilege in England; by virtue of his family background, he is simply not a man of the people. Although Thaksin is a wealthy telecoms tycoon and his cohorts have been linked with various abuses of power including vote-buying, his party's micro-financing and health-care initiatives resonated with the poor, who felt like these politicians were finally addressing their concerns...
...energy and metals. Now, as the crisis starts to bite, the Kremlin is reacting by increasing its control over broad swathes of the economy. Through the state-controlled banks, it is bailing out selected business executives who are having trouble paying their debts - including Oleg Deripaska, a metals tycoon who until recently was Russia's richest man. It is also playing an increasingly intrusive role in the private sector. At a meeting in Moscow on Nov. 25, for example, Igor Shuvalov, Putin's First Deputy Prime Minister, told the nation's major retailers that the Kremlin would ensure they gained...