Word: tycooning
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...Bingham fortune, in fact, was newly minted, and under suspicious circumstances at that. After Barry's mother died, his father married Mary Lily Flagler, 49, the widow of Standard Oil Tycoon Henry Flagler and reputedly the country's richest woman. An alcoholic who may have been addicted to morphine, Flagler died less than a year later. Flagler's relatives suspected foul play, but Brenner argues persuasively that the only certainty is that Bingham was "dangerously irresponsible toward a very sick woman...
...Evening News. His Luciferian arch-enemy Luthor, the mad scientist who wants to conquer the world, once had red hair, then became bald, then reacquired red hair; in the movies he was played as a buffoon, but now he has turned into a reasonably sane but incurably wicked conglomerate tycoon. Superman is also vulnerable to Kryptonite, the stuff that Krypton was made of, except when he is sometimes not vulnerable to Kryptonite. There is no longer one Superman, in other words, but half a dozen or more. The comic-book hero is different from the movie hero...
...Since taking over Allied, Campeau has arranged the sale of 16 of the company's 22 divisions and sent scores of top executives packing; all told, he eliminated an estimated 4,000 jobs. Federated feared a similar dismemberment at the hands of Campeau, 63, a self-made French-Canadian tycoon who may be more interested in real estate than in accumulating stores...
...that he moved to France, married a French wife and prospered in the hotel business. He lived in a world of yachts and limousines and casinos, and so did the son born in 1933, Jimmy. When he was six years old, according to a new biography by Geoffrey Wansell, Tycoon, a woman gave him a 1-franc coin. He put it in a slot machine and was inundated by a shower of coins...
...August, when the Dow Jones industrial average neared its peak of 2722. Trump, 41, had accordingly cashed in the bulk of his stock holdings, some $500 million worth of shares in Allegis, Holiday Inns, Bally Recreation and other companies. As Black Monday loomed for less fortunate investors, the tycoon claimed he had made a net profit of some $200 million. Now, Trump declared, he intended to "stay in cash for a while, see where the world is going...