Word: tycooning
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...corner from the Louis Vuitton store, and Wang Ling is getting steamed up over being evicted from her home. "They're liars," she says, pulling out official documents. "They're not going according to government regulations!" The Wangs got caught up in the dealings of a shady property tycoon who is serving three years in jail for stock manipulation--but not before they and thousands of others were tossed out of their homes to make way for the tycoon's now deferred project. They allege the developer got the property unfairly because of his cozy relationship with state officials. Wang...
...Hill had cracked the biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes. It also requires him to steep himself in Scream...
...exploration firms aiming to capitalize on booming energy prices, but with no income. So as long as small-cap exchanges are in vogue, fashion victims are inevitable. - By Adam Smith Getting In The Picture Move over, Hollywood - here comes Hungary. That's the hope of flamboyant Budapest real estate tycoon Sandor Demjan, chairman of TriGranit Development Corporation. With a government go-ahead expected "very soon," according to TriGranit, work is set to begin on a $188-million, state-of-the-art film complex to be built 15 km outside Budapest, due for completion next year. The 34-hectare Korda Studios...
...tycoon goes to Europe and eventually sheds glum responsibility (and a ditzy wife) in favor of true love-the divine Mary Astor. In the movies' highest romantic era, no film achieved more entrancing heights than Wyler's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' best novel...
...Performance of the Week MAN U FALL TO THE BEARDED GNOME screamed London's Daily Mail-and others weren't as kind. FANS OF MANCHESTER UNITED, the famed English soccer team, took to the streets over a takeover bid by U.S. tycoon Malcolm Glazer, who now owns 74.8% of the 127-year-old club, just 0.2% shy of complete control. Protesters swarmed the grounds at Old Trafford last Friday and burned the 67-year-old in effigy, while former team manager Tommy Docherty harrumphed that "Manchester United's heart and soul were sold today." But fans may be blowing...