Word: tycooning
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...boardrooms. Commercialism is bound to proliferate now, probably next time to the point of boat decals and spinnaker ads. If Baseball Emperor George Steinbrenner had been a little more forthcoming, Conner might have painted this boat with pinstripes and called it Yankee. With a better contribution, Real Estate Tycoon Donald Trump might have had Trump Card. "Funding, staffing, operating, planning, logistics, everything -- isn't that the game of life?" Conner says. Isn't it, campers? "Murray's got to be a six-figure guy," says Conner, who is not. "But I've got to think something good will happen...
...Beverly Hills Hotel are on the set of a deal so big and racy that it could inspire a screenplay. The 74-year-old pink-and-green landmark has been sold at auction by the feuding family of Wall Street's most notorious insider trader, Ivan Boesky. The buyer: Tycoon Marvin Davis. The secretive Denver oilman, 61, submitted the winning bid of about $135 million to Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table...
During law school in 1962, Boesky married Seema Silberstein, the daughter of Ben Silberstein, a real estate tycoon. After Boesky had made several stabs at starting a career, the young couple decided to move to New York City, where Silberstein set them up in a Park Avenue apartment. Boesky found a calling at last on Wall Street, where he landed a job as a stock analyst at the L.F. Rothschild investment firm. In 1975, when Boesky started his first arbitrage firm with $700,000 in capital, the Silberstein fortune helped bankroll...
...question is: Who the hell are you?" said Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, whose family founded Goodyear. Goldsmith's sharp retort was that he represented the "rough, tough world of competition . . . a world in which you run a business as a business and not as an institution." But the aggressive tycoon, who owned 11.5% of Goodyear's stock and had offered $4.7 billion for the whole company, was in the end bought off by the management, which promised to repurchase his holdings for $618.8 million plus expenses. The profit to Goldsmith and partners: $93 million. He said that his change...
Charlotte's eldest son Cane (Charles Grodin) tries to save the family $ business from the clutches of a rival tycoon (Dabney Coleman) by striking a shady deal with the local toxic-waste company. Meanwhile, his randy wife Talon (Teri Garr) roams the farm looking for bedmates; his younger brother Kevin (Anthony Heald) takes a vow of celibacy to protest the killing of sperm whales; an adopted sibling named Tiffany (Valerie Mahaffey) embarks on a search for her real parents; and a mysterious stranger (Gregory Harrison) shows up with his own dark secrets -- not the least of which...