Word: tycooning
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...president of Colombian foodmaker Noel, on the region's monetary woes "He was the Great Satan, the personification of evil. But after watching this film you end up just a little bit in love with him." Alexei Kazakov, Moscow movie critic, on The Oligarch, based on the life of tycoon Boris Berezovsky
...ARRESTED. GENTA OGAMI, 39, flamboyant Japanese tycoon, for allegedly swindling investors in his company's mail-order schemes; in Tokyo. At its peak last year, Ogami's G. Cosmos Japan Co. was worth hundreds of millions of dollars and employed 800 people. Six senior executives in the company have also been detained...
...fledgling company. Later, he arranged to sell the stake back to AOL for a $7 billion profit. The deal helped land Middelhoff the CEO job in 1998. He profitably sold off a stake in the German pay-TV service Premiere World long before the company, owned by media tycoon Leo Kirch, went bust. Middelhoff also persuaded Bertlesmann to buy the giant U.S. publisher Random House for $1.2 billion. His contract, reportedly paying him j8 million a year, was extended for five years only last month. (His payout is expected to be suitably generous...
...Chester, Ill., asylum, the Chester Mental Health Center. Yoder, it may surprise you to learn, would rather be in prison. He fought a long legal battle during the 1990s to get himself prosecuted for sending menacing letters to people like Playboy CEO Christie Hefner and the late M&M tycoon Forrest Mars Sr. because he wanted to be sentenced to a fixed term rather than remain committed indefinitely. He lost that battle, so to walk free, he must now convince an Illinois court either that he is not mentally ill or that he is not a threat...
...last week that she is 27. She also said that her son is 16 and that she was 17 when he was born. With luck, her math skills will improve when she receives the $88 million she was awarded in March from the estate of her late husband, oil tycoon Howard Marshall. If not, starting in August, viewers can watch her squander the cash when the E! channel airs a reality series of her life. E! says it had the idea before The Osbournes (though that show's success probably sped up production). Smith's once sybaritic ways have abated...