Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhilaration among right-wingers following Italy's election of a majority conservative coalition to the Parliament was dampened as party officials bickered over who would govern. By week's end, however, two parties in the alliance had reached an agreement endorsing constitutional changes that could lead to media tycoon and populist leader Silvio Berlusconi's becoming Prime Minister...
...proclaimed the sales brochure for the 42 lots of the Whitewater project near Flippin in northern Arkansas. However, despite the scenic snapshots and the homey-but- hokey handwritten spiel, no one was buying into the forested real estate development. To spur sales, Jim McDougal, a local savings and loan tycoon, % thought he needed a model home -- and the help of one of his Whitewater partners, Hillary Rodham, as she then called herself. In 1980 McDougal loaned her $30,000 to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom ranch-style unit. When the buyer of the home later became insolvent...
Individual lives are similarly transformed. More than a million Chinese have become dakuan, or dollar millionaires, and as much as 5% of the population is affluent by Chinese standards. In 1978 Li Xiaohua was a cook in a Beijing restaurant. Today he is a business tycoon who wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch and owns two Mercedes-Benz and a red Ferrari. Ten years ago, Chen Xiaohan was a steelworker in a mill near Beijing. Now he manages a state-owned import-export company and drives around in a Cadillac with a mobile phone. Wang Guoqing quit...
Thomas indicated that the idea is not as newfangled as people seem to think. The hair salon/travel agency phenomenon can be found all over England, where it was first launched by a failed airline company tycoon named Freddy Laker. But according to Thomas, a native of the Caribbean who speaks 5 languages and travels extensively throughout the world, Your Hair is the only enterprise of its kind in the United States...
Pringle admits to the crime, but Benson pleads "not guilty"; the play centers on the lies and truths told on all sides to get him acquitted. To make matters more complicated, a Scotsman Lenny (Michael Fields) is out to get something from Gordon. And greenhouse tycoon Tinker McTear (Richard Yanowitz) has an interest in Benson's future. Although ultimately many of the loose ends are never tied up, the play ends with a sense that everything will turn out as it should...