Word: tycooning
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Reagan unabashedly used Scoop, but did so in a way that honored his memory, his family and his country. The President threw out his big arms and gathered everybody in-Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, Jew, Baptist, old, young, hawk, dove, hardhat, tycoon. And none of them could argue, only lean back and enjoy the political theater that Reagan had adroitly and effortlessly stage-managed...
...Says the tycoon of tofu: "I am close to this tremendous breakthrough. It is made of tofu and has the taste and smell of a beefburger." Given his marketing skills, it may not be long before Tofutti addicts sit down to the main course: a Big MacFutti...
DECLARED DEAD. Helen Vorhees Brach, reclusive widow of Chicago Candy Tycoon Frank Brach and heir to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy company fortune, who vanished seven years ago at age 66 after a checkup at the Mayo Clinic; as of Feb. 17, 1977, the last day she was known to be alive; in Chicago. Most of the estimated $45 million estate will go to hospitals, churches and animal-welfare groups, but her will also includes a $50,000 annuity to John Matlick, 54, her longtime houseman and chauffeur, who was originally a suspect, though no evidence ever directly linked...
...there is more. Greenfeld's antihero, Larry Lazar, is not a conventionally Philistine tycoon, trampling on the souls of artists. He is an artist, an acclaimed creator of humanistic films who just happens to be, personally, a creep. He would rather betray a friend than lose a deal. When Lazar feels a charitable impulse and gives money to the less fortunate, he connives to get the studio to pay him back. And he is not merely greedy. He is, as a colleague remarks, "an aesthetic hustler" who looks upon every intimate-even his unlamented mother-as movie "material...
...Shack's Model 100, the first truly portable computer. Microsoft produced the MSX systems software that will be used for a new series of Japanese computers. Thanks to that business (and more), Gates, who owns almost half of the privately held company, has become America's software tycoon...