| Great fortunes have usually been built by industrial tycoons, sometimes known as robber barons. |
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| The two tycoons have been involved in a long-running legal dispute centring on the ownership of two of Russia's largest pulp and paper mills. |
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| Within this category American tycoons probably merit their own subsection, as do, quite separately, conmen and speculators. |
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| We're back with Anthony Quinn, who has played Native Americans, mafia dons, Arab sheiks, Greek peasants, tycoons, Hawaiian chieftains. |
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| It's full of rich of ladies and business tycoons retiring after making a cool million and leaving the company to their kids. |
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| Among them could often be found the American consul general, tycoons, bankers and even opium-dealers. |
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| The tech-savvy leaders may convince business tycoons to bear the financial burden. |
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| The newest tech tycoons, they prophesied, would be left clutching fistfuls of worthless options. |
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| These days, however, Labour ministers probably make tycoons feel positively common. |
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| These findings frustrated the believers of a perpetual motion machine, and angered the industrial tycoons who sponsored the whole endeavor. |
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| Lord Stevenson is of the opinion that candidates for the peerage might range from midwives to tycoons. |
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| It is odd how they happily dance attendance on unelected newspaper editors, television interviewers and City tycoons. |
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| The City of York has produced some of the region's wealthiest working tycoons, a new survey has revealed. |
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| The two unexpectedly discover that the killings are connected to a group of former computer business tycoons turned religious fanatics. |
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| Throughout the decade several oil tycoons claimed they were the inspiration for the show. |
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| Melbourne is filling with tycoons, moguls, magnates, billionaires and mere millionaires. |
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| There were only a dozen or so billionaires, most of them oil tycoons. |
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| It is timely: Democrats hope to paint Republicans as shills for tycoons in this year's election campaign. |
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| Summarising the shenanigans of tycoons and politicians exemplifies that, but does not explain it. Mr James rightly avoids one catch-all thesis. |
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| For some reason, he ungraciously omitted to thank the billionaire tycoons who had given whopping big individual donations. |
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| Despite lavish hospitality from Ukraine's football-loving tycoons, UEFA is unhappy and may even cancel some matches planned in Lvov. |
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| Yet Masters's thorough but frequently unsifted reporting doesn't really bear out these claims... What a merry band the tycoons were. |
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| They could start with a few property tycoons and top bankers being dragged through the Irish courts in handcuffs. |
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| The behaviour of some tycoons in certain situations has slid them down the steep slope of tyranny. |
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| The beneficiaries are a relatively small group of tycoons with political, business or familial ties to senior officials. |
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| Under this arrangement for example, one of the farming tycoons, Mr Adylov, was able to build and control a prison for his enemies. |
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| The City is echoing with bankers prophesying an exodus: of shipping tycoons to Athens and private-equity partners to Geneva. |
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| Or is a new class of capitalist tycoons coming into being, while hundreds of millions vegetate in utter poverty? |
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| The media tycoons whose closeness to the new democratic government has helped boost their growth, were just as close to the previous regime. |
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| Busy tycoons such as J. Pierpont Morgan and J. Paul Getty devoted as much time to their fine arts collections as they did to their businesses. |
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| Tax-dodging tycoons have also angered regular folk who are already fed up with rampant graft that has put many a government functionary behind the wheel of a fancy car. |
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| The aristocrats, tycoons, soldiers and common people are of the same sort today as then. |
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| Sidewalk peddlers and restaurant owners have different concerns from real estate tycoons and owners of Fortune 500 corporations. |
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| It is the people who are concerned by environmental issues and not the tycoons of finance. |
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| Ask these tycoons what they own in China or how much they are planning to invest on the mainland. |
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| It also teaches students the role model of public service rather than that of tycoons. |
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| Where the real housing industry varies enormously from the pretend world of real estate tycoons is that home builders can't actually pass go unless they sell the houses. |
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| If yachting was the focus of social life during the daytime, at night bronzed shoulders rubbed together in the villas and mansions of various tycoons and princes. |
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| Beyond the power plays, the million dollar deals, and the back-stabbing tycoons and their mistresses, we were given a glimpse of a world about which we can only fantasise. |
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| Behind his words is a major reform programme that has clipped the wings of tycoons and corrupt regional governors, as well as simplifying the tax and trade rules. |
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| Ukraine's tycoons seem a bit less destructively greedy than their Russian counterparts. |
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| Trade unions have tried to inveigle competing bids from friendlier tycoons. |
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| There is a wealth of wholesome periodical literature available, appealing to everyone from small tykes to millionaire tycoons. |
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| Corruption and bribery are rampant in many countries across Asia Pacific, often involving top politicians, government officials, military personnel, and business tycoons. |
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| He was one of the first Russian tycoons openly to declare his wealth. |
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| None of the tycoons who stole billions of dollars of public funds intended to recapitalise banks during the Asian crisis has ever been prosecuted. |
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| In short, contrary to what is sometimes imagined, the hazardousness of airborne asbestos fibers was in no way a secret somehow confined to the executive offices of asbestos-mining tycoons. |
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| In a scheme of breathtaking audacity a handful of oil tycoons and corrupt government officials nearly managed to make away with a hefty percentage of the nation's petroleum reserves. |
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| We're hoping she has a go at the keepy-uppy toy that is pitched to the tycoons here. |
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| He criticized governments for having allowed the system to get out of control, and financiers and corporate tycoons for turning their dealings into a free-for-all game. |
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| He may perhaps be steeling himself to take on one or other of the tycoons, but it seems more likely that he is trying to play them off against each other. |
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| Indonesia, the perpetual laggard, has dropped a plan to go soft on corrupt and indebted tycoons and brought in a new, supposedly more scrupulous team to sell the state's industrial assets. |
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| The money of the tycoons is directly syphoned from the poor and the weak. |
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| What is more, the record of some companies that were denationalised looks different today from the late 80s, when tycoons like Lord King at British Airways were members of the prime minister's inner court. |
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| The list of fresh Tory peers includes tycoons, investment bankers, Hooray Henries and Lord Snootys. |
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| Many of those who will endure pain over the next 12 months will wonder why they suffer while the banks received billions of taxpayers' euros to rescue them from a crisis they had caused alongside the property tycoons. |
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| The riposte is that Tory tycoons and corporations that don't pay their UK taxes are unreliable witnesses, but even the best rebuttal comes too late. |
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| Workers' rights are openly violated under the excuse of maintaining economic stability, while big companies and tycoons are free to refrain from paying taxes, salaries and other benefits. |
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| They operated like these criminal tycoons now do in Russia. |
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| In Tanzania, politically connected tycoons are on a buying spree. |
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| He concluded his term, however, when a local news media uncovered evidence of him receiving favours and hospitality from business tycoons on various occasions. |
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| Tycoons operate monopolies through the blessing of governments, central and regional, and with support from corrupt courts and bureaucrats. |
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