Word: tycooning
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...traditional hollow "matryoshka" dolls, each of which houses a smaller doll in descending sequence. And where cynics might have expected to find the likeness of arch-oligarch Boris Berezovsky inside a doll representing the president he helped bring to power, Putin may instead contain figures unpalatable to the media tycoon. Indeed, the new president's campaign against some of the other oligarchs - politically powerful billionaires who, like Berezovsky, accumulated their fortunes by questionable means in the Wild West early years of Russian capitalism - and his efforts to centralize power in the Kremlin have gotten Berezovsky so worried that...
...quagmire. Berezovsky may have backed Putin to the hilt in using his media outlets to spin the war as a vote-winner for candidate Putin, but he now believes Putin is pursuing a disastrous course by seeking to impose Moscow's rule on the Chechens. The tycoon now insists negotiation is the only solution, and that it's pointless to have Moscow talking to its own handpicked Chenchen puppets - negotiations have to be with those who are fighting...
...decade ago, its followers were mostly Asian Americans, New Age junkies and flaky Hollywood or fashion types. Now bureaucrats and bottom-line-driven businessmen are embracing it. Ma Wong's clients include 65 real estate developers as well as Universal Studios and Coty Beauty, the fragrance concern. Real estate tycoon Donald Trump uses feng shui, as does the brokerage house Merrill Lynch...
...Lined with shelves of books on management--including a thick biography of automotive tycoon Lee Iacocca--Mayer's office reflects his corporate vision...
Pavlovsky dismisses the vote-fixing charges and plays down his reputation as the Kremlin's electoral wizard, describing his role as that of a modest analyst. But it is a sign of the times that Putin's election is not credited to a business tycoon or Kremlin staff member but to a professional political organizer--a former dissident and political exile who scorns the "intellectual poverty" of the Gorbachev years and is bullish on the Internet. His consulting firm, the Fund for Effective Politics, avoids the limelight but enjoys a reputation for achieving the impossible. One would-be client...