Word: tycooning
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...Christmas buying season brought little cheer to corporate raider and would-be retailing tycoon Robert Campeau. Citibank notified his Allied and , Federated stores, owners of Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Straus, that the bank might formally place loans totaling $2.3 billion in default as early as Jan. 10. Many Campeau suppliers and investors concluded that the chains would soon be forced to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "You would have to be out of your mind to ship to either of these companies under current conditions," said one supplier...
...with the detective (James Naughton), a rumpled knight of the tenderloin who lives by a code of honor in a world of thugs and well-heeled thieves. Moments later the story shifts to the office (coyly labeled a "cell") where his creator labors as a hireling of a movie tycoon more crass, smug and fascinatingly awful than any envisioned by Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism, no politics, no hint of kinky sex), the moneystruck young writer (Gregg Edelman) peevishly retypes his scenes -- and, in an inspired bit of playfulness, that action...
...just me. It's like I had this extra money, so I just started giving it out," said Judy Kelly, 53, who describes herself as the daughter of "an industrial tycoon" and a Chicago native...
...Toronto Tycoon. A former shop foreman who became one of Canada's top real estate developers, Robert Campeau in 1986 went on a U.S. shopping spree. Campeau, 66, paid $3.6 billion for Allied Stores and won Federated Department Stores for $6.6 billion in a celebrated 1988 battle with R.H. Macy & Co. But the takeovers left Campeau, who had little experience in U.S. retailing, sorely overextended. His attempt to raise cash by selling off several chain stores brought disappointing proceeds, and then the women's apparel trade went into a slump...
...time he left in 1976, his credits included The Way We Were and Shampoo. Peters, 44, an Angeleno who spent a year in reform school, broke into the movie industry using a hairbrush and a blow dryer. After coiffing Barbra Streisand and then moving in with her, the hairstyling tycoon produced her 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born. Eventually the talkative Peters produced two other Streisand vehicles, The Main Event and What's Up, Doc?, as well as the hit comedy Caddyshack...