Clive Palmer, one of Australia's richest men, has commissioned a Chinese state-owned company to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic.

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Clive Palmer unveiled blueprints for the famously doomed ship's namesake Tuesday at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York.

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Clive Palmer said Friday he intends to refloat the United Australian Party, a once dominant force in Australian politics that sank without a trace in the 1940s.

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Rival miner Clive Palmer has been a vociferous critic.

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Worse, Clive Palmer, another mining billionaire, somehow did.

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Instead, four of the top five slots were occupied by people who made their money from the mining boom - Ivan Glasenberg, Andrew Forrest, Clive Palmer, and, at the very top, Gina Rinehart, Australia's first lady of iron ore.

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One of those disputes is with the major construction contractor, a Chinese company called Metallurgical Corporation of China, another is with Clive Palmer, the self-made Australian millionaire with a plan to build a replica of Titanic, the unsinkable passenger liner that claimed 1502 lives when it sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.

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Successful leaders like Tony Palmer at Kimberly Clark are not afraid to let key members of their teams, like Clive Sirkin, play significant roles in shaping the futures of their organizations.

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