The banner-waver is a young deputy prime minister who has also been a big businessman, Sergei Tigipko.

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Take the case of Willie Haughey, a self-made Glasgow businessman and big donor to the Labour Party.

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It's just the latest instance of a well-financed businessman making a big splash discovery or extreme feat.

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Kirk has big dreams but ultimately is a pragmatic businessman.

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The credit for spotting that this co-operation could have big potential belongs not to Yorkshire Forward, however, but to a Sheffield businessman and a professor.

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The 1928 Italian Renaissance style hotel, now part of the Four Seasons, has a big role in 1990's "Pretty Woman, " starring Richard Gere as a ruthless businessman and Julia Roberts as a prostitute who softens his heart.

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For me, he is an entertainer, a successful businessman and a great self-promoter, so I take his political comments with the big grain of salt they deserve.

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Minnesota lawyer and businessman Scott Hillstrom started HealthStore in 1997 after traveling through Kenya and noticing that one of the big problems there was lack of reliable access to basic generic drugs.

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He also has a big stake in the PT Adaro coal concession -- controlled by Graeme Robertson, an Indonesia-based Australian businessman -- which gives him an ace in bidding for power projects.

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Local businessman Subhash Chandra's Zee TV (in which Murdoch has a 50% stake) became a big hit among the Hindi-speaking audience.

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