Word: tycooning
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...calls the shots there is Ambrous Tung Young, a low-profile tycoon who, friends say, grew up in Taiwan, acquired U.S. citizenship, then renounced it. Exactly when he gave up his U.S. passport is unclear but relevant: foreign nationals are not allowed to participate in decisions by their U.S. subsidiaries about campaign contributions...
Lindner, the conservative tycoon from Cincinnati, Ohio, who heads Chiquita Brands, gives much more money to Republicans than Democrats. That helps explain why, when he needed a big favor from the Clinton Administration two years ago, he may have wanted to hide his footprints. Lindner wanted U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to help him pry open European markets, which rely on various tariffs and trade barriers effectively to shut out Lindner's bananas. Though hundreds of companies ask Washington to investigate unfair trade practices, the U.S. Trade Representative accepts only about 14 cases each year. Even fewer are taken...
...avid scuba diver, LeBow has enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan...
...never have heard of him, but if you've bought a home, rented a car or stayed in a hotel recently, you have probably encountered the handiwork of a high-powered, low-profile tycoon named Henry Silverman. Once a top Wall Street dealmaker, Silverman now runs a superfast-growing company called HFS that owns a collection of brands from Howard Johnson to Century 21 to Avis that have made it the world's largest and most aggressive franchiser. "You'd have a lot of difficulty finding another company this size that is growing this fast," says Smith Barney analyst Michael...
...year-old movie like Star Wars can rule the box office for weeks, imagine what a 56-year-old movie can do. Director Ridley Scott plans to make a film dramatizing Orson Welles' struggle to make Citizen Kane in the face of opposition from tycoon William Randolph Hearst, on whom Kane was based...