• The entire territory -- this dazzling financial and trade hub of Asia, gateway to the emerging economic powerhouse of China -- lies literally at the magnate's feet.

    CNN: Up, Up And Away

  • In the past decade, Wu had turned Hopewell, once just another local property company, into an infrastructure and power developer in China, the Philippines, Thailand and soon, says the magnate, in Pakistan and India.

    CNN: HANGING ON AT HOPEWELL

  • In the early nineteen-nineties, Clean Hands effectively destroyed the Christian Democrat and Socialist Parties, and in 1994 there was a huge electoral shift, this time to the newly formed party of the magnate Silvio Berlusconi.

    NEWYORKER: Booted

  • The mining magnate plans to revive the Great Depression-era party and stand candidates for every seat in the House of Representatives and Senate at general elections on Sept. 14.

    NPR: Australian Behind New Titanic Plans Political Bid

  • The steel magnate expects future demand in the steel industry to be driven by the "BRIC" countries--an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China.

    FORBES: Mittal Wants More Consolidation In Steel Industry

  • The reclusive magnate from Denver - dubbed "the richest American you've never heard of" by Fortune magazine - has a reputation for sinking money into failing businesses and turning them around.

    BBC: Dome doom or hockey history?

  • With only three weeks to go before the polls, the formerly unthinkable - a return to power by the media magnate who has dominated Italian politics for the past two decades - has now become possible, political observers are saying.

    BBC: Silvio Berlusconi makes Italy property tax pledge

  • Together with widespread corruption, this has allowed him to jail potential opponents like the oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, confiscating his assets which included the oil company, Yukos.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Russia extends a helping hand to Chavez

  • Named after Warren Buffett, the eponymous piece of proposed tax legislation was born out of comments made by the billionaire business magnate bemoaning the fact that his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • The hospitality magnate was heading back to his Oberoi hotel, and the 21st-floor suite where he prefers to stay, when the terrorists attacked.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The hospitality magnate was heading back to his upscale Oberoi hotel, and the 21st-floor suite where he prefers to stay, when the terrorists attacked.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The rich lady has the affair with the perfume magnate, then her son gets killed.

    FORBES: Liberal Mags Lambaste Obama

  • John Fredriksen, the legendary Norwegian shipping magnate behind the creation of Seadrill, is one of the more shareholder-friendly CEOs from overseas.

    FORBES: 5 Energy Stocks That Continue To Reward Investors With Dividends

  • The resulting remodel of the shipping magnate's 37th-floor Miami Beach condo turned a three-bedroom, closed-in space into a two-bedroom open loft.

    WSJ: Sailing the Wide Miami Sky

  • The casino magnate has been married four times and has 17 children, several of whom hold management positions in his various businesses.

    FORBES: Stanley Ho Saga Heads To Court

  • When he died last April, the Manhattan real estate magnate owned the most rarefied collection of Ferraris (and some Lamborghinis and Zondas) in the world.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The media magnate is making a strong bid to return to power just over a year after he was forced to resign, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.

    BBC: Silvio Berlusconi makes Italy property tax pledge

  • He confirmed that he is the godfather of one of Murdoch's children, but said that is because his relationship with the media magnate changed once he was no longer prime minister.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • But there's a softer side to the technology magnate.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Standing in the construction magnate's Mexico City home on Mar. 2, 1998, Lerma says, Perusquia admitted he had gambled Lerma's fortune away on shaky Canadian gold stocks and used false account statements to cover it up.

    FORBES: Ay, caramba!

  • The editor of the newspaper Izvestia, Raf Shakirov, resigned over the paper's critical coverage of Beslan, reportedly on the Kremlin's orders (the paper is owned by Vladimir Potanin, the media magnate most loyal to Mr Putin).

    ECONOMIST: Beslan and after

  • The construction magnate and his powerful board are able to wield influence with banks and allow Real to secure credit on favorable terms which, combined with a lucrative domestic television rights deal, puts them in a stronger financial position.

    CNN: Premier League stricken with debt?

  • Instead, the oil magnate kicked up an international fuss about his persecution, bought a newspaper and got no fewer than 101 members of the Duma to sign a petition complaining about the alleged torture of one of the Yukos suspects.

    ECONOMIST: Russia's oligarch wars

  • If the Russian gas magnate and former prime minister said the game was up, Mr Milosevic might well have listened.

    ECONOMIST: What next for Slobodan Milosevic?

  • The greetings card magnate, who had been at the club for 14 years, had been seeking to sell his controlling stake for some time.

    BBC: Bath Rugby taken over by businessman Bruce Craig

  • The Canadian newspaper magnate has never looked like recovering from the drubbing.

    ECONOMIST: Will Leo Strine re-engineer takeover law in America?

  • Judges are on the take, cops beat up unionists, the utilities and railroad magnate Samuel Insull perhaps the biggest crook of all.

    WSJ: The Old Bunch | Meyer Levin | Destiny's Children | Masterpiece by Joseph Epstein

  • Among the items was the white mink stole given to the diva by the Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, before he left her to marry the widow of President John F Kennedy.

    BBC: Callas auction hits $1m

  • His off-course appetite for helicopters, deep-sea fishing and scuba and skydiving fortified the legend-allowing him to hobnob with the likes of the Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, Jack Welch and Bill Clinton and win lucrative endorsements from Chevrolet and Titleist, the golf-equipment maker.

    FORBES: Norman's conquest

  • With the backing of the local salt 'magnate', John Corbett, the town became the only salt-water spa-town in Britain.

    BBC: Hereford & Worcester

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