Word: tycooning
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State of the Union eerily presages the aura of excitement that Ross Perot is bringing to the 1992 presidential race. Like Tracy in the movie, the billionaire Texas tycoon can be described as boasting "the rare combination of sincerity and drive that the common herd will go for. They think he's one of them. He thinks he's one of them." But Perot scorns the two-party politics that tripped up Tracy and instead is mobilizing the energies of the little people -- the John and Jane Does of the land -- in a citizens' crusade to collect...
...after it was found to be a virtual supermarket of illegal services. American firms Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse are being investigated for their part in managing B.C.C.I.'s books; both could face suits. Coopers & Lybrand is coming under similar scrutiny for its role as auditor for the media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who apparently looted some of his companies in the months before his mysterious death at sea. Deloitte & Touche stands to be hit with hundreds of liability suits by policyholders whose investments were put at risk by the failure of Executive Life Insurance...
Eventually, the buzz saw wore down the polo manager's daughter. She was particularly upset when the Daily Mail in January splashed a scoop of her poolside unwinding in Morocco with Steve Wyatt, 38, bachelor son of a Texas oil tycoon. A cleaning woman had found snapshots of the scene in Wyatt's old flat in London and tattled the tale. Though Scotland Yard impounded the photos -- by all accounts they depicted only innocent fun -- Andrew reportedly hit the roof...
...slimeball tycoon named Donald Grump (played with ooze and flair by Tom Hughes) is trying to cheat a nice old lady named Isadora Jarr (Jeremy Nye) out of her casino, the Tropicana Pure Premium. Jarr needs a million bucks to escape bankruptcy. Coincidentally, Grump's Chicken McNugget Casino is hosting the Miss Fortune Beauty Pageant--first prize, $1,000,000! Coincidentally, the Tropicana's headline trio of tonsorially challenged sisters--Mona Lott (Mark O'Keefe in a big red wig), Liza Lott (Mike McNeal in a big black wig) and Cara Lott (Peter Ferren in a big blonde wig)--have...
...SELF-MADE MEN WHO BUILT THEIR empires on the ill-placed confidence of lenders and investors. One of the con men was a Pakistani banker who exercised influence from Washington to Beijing but was in fact running a financial supermarket for criminals. The other was a 300-lb. tabloid tycoon whose fatal plunge into the Atlantic was one of the most bizarre finales in business history. When their empires came crashing down in 1991, the debacles raised pointed questions about the laxity of financial regulations around the world...