He directs his empire from a paper-stacked desk in an open room surrounded by the desks of his lieutenants.

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It has the dubious distinction of being the only major creditor of the Gabayzadeh and Elghanayan paper empire to be paid back in full.

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Now he faces open revolt from journalists on the Sun, the paper which laid the foundations of his media empire with its "soaraway" success in the 1970s.

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Mitra said the traditional system of education is largely based on the necessities created by Britain's colonial empire in which a vast amount of territory had to be governed by people writing things on paper and sending them around the world on ships.

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As Adam Levitin of Georgetown University Law Centre and Susan Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania pointed out in a recent paper on the causes of the housing bubble in America, it is impossible to borrow the Empire State Building in order to sell New York real estate short.

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By 2000 American Tissue's empire stretched from Oregon to New York and included eight mills capable of producing 919, 000 tons of pulp and paper annually, 8 product-producing plants and 12 distribution centers.

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