Sentences with phrase «tycoon who»

Casino Mussolini prided himself on being perceived as a powerful and wealthy business tycoon who was too smart to pay tax and too smart to pay his creditors yet smart enough to be president.

We have an interesting character named Orville Tycoon who happens to unleash a virus called «Formula - Z» to FinkleVille.

This 19 - story hotel was constructed in 1926 on the same site as the preexisting mansion of Mark Hopkins, a tycoon who created the Central Pacific... Read More

Meet «Carrie,» the quintessential young writer looking for love in all the wrong places...» Mr. Big,» the business tycoon who drifts from one relationship to another...» Samantha Jones,» the fortyish, successful, «testosterone woman» who uses sex like a man... not to mention «Psycho Moms,» «Bicycle Boys,» «International Crazy Girls,» and the rest of the New Yorkers who have inspired one of the most watched TV series of our time.

That «V» comes from the pair of twin - turbo Cadillac ATS - Vs that make up the chassis of this 1948 Cadillac, both of which were donated by owner, Wes Rydell, a dealership tycoon who has owned several of award - winning, coach - built hot rods and customs, including a recent America's Most Beautiful Roaster trophy at the 2014 Grand National Roadster Show for his 1935 Chevrolet Phaeton built by Troy Trepanier.

Ruth Chatterton takes charge as an auto tycoon who goes through men like underwear in Female (1933), a smooth but snappy romantic comedy from Michael Curtiz that reverses the sexual power dynamic.

Cruise stars as David Aames, a 33 - year - old tycoon who inherited a publishing empire when his parents were killed in a car crash.

The picture stars Sir Ben Kingsley as Damian Hale, a terminally - ill, business tycoon who doesn't want to die.

His girlfriend, Julie Hastings (Frances McDormand), is a crusading journalist whose nose for news gets Peyton caught in the crosshairs of Louis Strack Jr. (Colin Friels), a malicious corporate real estate tycoon who makes use of a small army of sneering mercenaries led by the sadistic Robert Durant (Larry Drake).

But at least they are compelling characters: the sadly clairvoyant Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), who knows to much and is watching his faith in humanity ebb in to the ether; the vampirish Ozymandius (Matthew Goode), an effete tycoon who is the smartest man in the world; the embittered Rorchach (Walter Kovacs), a psychopath whose toxic moods swim across his masked face as shifting ink blots; Nite Owl II (Dan Drieberg), who is basically Batman with a Clark Kent - like alter ego as a mild - mannered model of mid-life impotence; and the latex - sheathed, dominatrix - next - door, Silk Spectre II — played by Toronto actress and Maxim cover girl Malin Akerman, who made an appearance at the Toronto premiere I attended last night.

It features two of my favorite pre-code discoveries, Skyscraper Souls (1932) and Employees» Entrance (1933), both starring Warren William in his silver fox phase: the big business tycoon who's a shark at work and a wolf with the women, putting the moves on the youngest and prettiest girls around.

A man returns to his hometown only to discover the town is being overrun by a land tycoon who operates outside the law.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is Lithgow's Doug Strutt, a selfish and arrogant hotel tycoon who makes his money by crushing others.

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a retired railroad tycoon who's interested in buying the Cannonball.

And no amount of sensible reporting was able to prevent Ebola hysteria in the United States in 2014, fueled by a tweeting New York real estate tycoon who said that U.S. nurses and doctors with Ebola should stay in Africa.

Mr Ashcroft, a millionaire business tycoon who spends most of his time in Belize, was nominated by Tory leader William Hague and is included in a list of new working peers published on Friday.

It really stinks that Cameron's latest list of peerages includes so many Tory party donors like the Asian jewellery tycoon who either personally or through his company has made 20 donations to the Tories in the last six years, and the Tory co-treasurer who has donated over # 2.3 million to the party.

We have now learned that Burnside also works for Vincent Tchenguiz, a property tycoon who was the largest shareholder in Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL Group, for almost a decade.

Arron Banks (above), the insurance tycoon who gave millions to the Leave campaign, was at the party»

Syrova also reports to Viktor Danilkin, the judge who sent down Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the business tycoon who infamously disobeyed Putin.

Big is a tycoon who would be adept at managing anything that's thrown at him, from logistical nightmares to the intricacies of state agencies.

The populist one, meanwhile, was embodied by Silvio Berlusconi, a media tycoon who won the 1994 general elections and has dominated Italian politics ever since.

But only Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate tycoon who has refashioned himself as a conservative populist, had stood in Cruz's way of winning Iowa.

I know this sell as you buy system is a bit irritating and seems out of place in the age where PSG just spent 40 million on a Brazilian I have never even heard of a month or so earlier, but Arsenal are a self - sustaining club and we must remember that it is this system which has provided us with the sexiest stadium in England and a world class training facility without selling the club out to some tycoon who just wants to make a few bucks with some popularity for his business.

Wang Jianlin, the Chinese tycoon who just agreed to acquire the co-producer of «Jurassic World» for $ 3.5 billion in cash, signaled bigger deals may be in the works as he builds Dalian Wanda Group Co.'s influence in the global film industry.

Coronel's husband, who was not present for the birth, is a legendary tycoon who overcame a penurious rural childhood to establish a wildly successful multinational business.

This image of Perdue as a timid introvert is strikingly at odds with his legacy as a marketing tycoon who transformed a family - owned business into an empire.

Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon who narrowly lost last year's general election, has forecast that Prodi will not last much longer in power.

The most recent of those was in 2006, when Thaksin Shinawatra, the divisive media tycoon who became Prime Minister in 2001 — populist to some, corrupt politician to others — was overthrown.

Given that the debate about morality and business practices rages on to this day, we figured it was a good opportunity to take a look at the ruthless business practices and accomplishments of 19 tycoons who built — and ruled — America.

An outpost in Miami is seen as a way to link local «treps to the growing number of business tycoons who are based in Latin America, where Endeavor first got its start and has access to board members in sectors such as tech, telecoms, retail and finance.

The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.

The list of business tycoons who plan to leave only a portion of their estates to their kids includes, from left, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Ted Turner (not pictured).

The rhinos are a herd of Chinese tycoons who have used a combination of political connections and raw ambition to create sprawling global conglomerates.

Of the 1,538 tycoons who had been on the «Rich List» through the years, Lane wrote, «not one has been more fixated with his or her net worth estimate on a year - in, year - out basis than Donald J. Trump.»

«A few critical ones include passing the Dream Act and driver's licenses for all, strengthening the rent laws and standing up to the real estate tycoons who pad the pockets of Albany politicians to pad their own bottom lines, and implementing real criminal justice reform that includes full bail reform.

The Business Council and wall street tycoons who paid almost $ 10 million of own money in the anti-state worker campaign last year certainly have their own interests in mind by bankrolling Cuomo and his ideas.

S. I. «Si» Newhouse, one of America's wealthiest tycoons who spent summers on Long Island, died at his Manhattan home after a long illness.

Popper (Carrey), as addressed by colleagues and his children alike, is one of those New York real estate tycoons who have lost sight of the real world.

The 1920s set drama follows newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton, ambitious lumber tycoons who show up in North Carolina to grow their business and start a family.

Even in the early days of American history with merit based millionaires... tycoons who made it rich by the seat of their pants.

Fraser's casual noblesse oblige is jarring, her distinction between the haves and have - nots blunt, but her tone differs dramatically from that of today's tycoons who tend to favor more inclusive and populist rhetoric while disinvesting in culture as a public benefit.

Many people operate under the assumption that property managers are for real estate tycoons who own hundreds of rental properties and tenants.

Not exact matches

In Cohen's own estimation, he is Trump's Ray Donovan, the bruising television character who takes whatever steps are needed to fix problems for the tycoon he serves.

«It is strange how close we are to a new Cold War,» says banking and media tycoon Alexander Lebedev (Britain's Independent and Evening Standard newspapers are among his vast holdings), who was a KGB spy in the 1980s during the real Cold War.

But the New York real estate tycoon, who once supported abortion access, has come under pressure from conservatives to prove he is truly one of them.

The largest donors to the various anti-weed political groups around the country include a billionaire casino tycoon, a woman who believes in reefer madness, a drug - crusading former U.S. ambassador, cops, prison guards, booze merchants, and a pharma company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl.

Warren Buffett is a legendary investor, a business tycoon, and a hero for many who work in the financial services industry like I do.

Levittown was an expanse of 17,000 nearly identical homes, planned by celebrity business tycoon William Levitt, a national icon on the level of Walt Disney and Henry Ford during the 1950s, who had graced the cover of TIME.

(Also industrial tycoons suspect that work without play may make Jack a malingering, absentee, job - switching boy who will not love old Amalgamated Sponge Incorporated as much as Amspo Inc. feels it should be loved.)