These are the kind of missteps Fitzgerald doubtlessly would have corrected had he lived to finish "The Last Tycoon, " but he died in December 1940, with the novel incomplete.

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The city was founded at the turn of the last century by high-living Standard Oil tycoon Henry M.

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London-oriented Thistle was hit hard last year: a Malaysian tycoon seized the chance to bid for it, and won.

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The British tycoon signed a three-year title sponsor deal with the rookie team last December, which saw Sheffield-based Manor Motorsport rebranded as Virgin Racing.

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The tycoon had close links with Mr Menem's circle (so close that last year the then justice minister resigned because of them).

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The last presidential election, in 1993, appeared to have been won by a southern business tycoon, Moshood Abiola, but before all the results were out, the soldiers annulled the polls.

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Kommersant, the last remaining heavyweight independent daily newspaper, was bought last week by Boris Berezovsky, an influential tycoon close to Mr Yeltsin's powerful daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko.

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Besides Mr Ortega, another fast riser has been Larry Ellison, the Oracle tycoon, whose software firm has risen 20% on the stock market over the last year.

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Business leaders welcomed parts of the broader approach to empowerment set out by Cyril Ramaphosa, a black tycoon (and former union leader) whose commission on the subject reported to the government last year.

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