conglomerateur love

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  • noun business One who forms conglomerates.

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Examples

  • For months, Joe Lewis, the British conglomerateur, had been acquiring our stock in huge blocks, until—go figure—he got up to 11 million shares, or 9.4 percent of the company.

    The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

  • For months, Joe Lewis, the British conglomerateur, had been acquiring our stock in huge blocks, until—go figure—he got up to 11 million shares, or 9.4 percent of the company.

    The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

  • By far the best of the lot is Frank Gehry's IAC/InterActiveCorp Headquarters of 2003 – 2007, an iceberg-like mid-rise office building commissioned by the conglomerateur Barry Diller, one of the High Line's biggest donors.

    Up in the Park Filler, Martin 2009

  • Michael Douglas as the memorable Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street, with a character based on the real-life buccaneer conglomerateur Ivan Boesky.

    Redeeming the Dismal Science 2007

  • That is what they called Sean Quinn - canny conglomerateur to his friends, wily rogue to his enemies and, until recently, the richest man in

    NYT > Home Page By DOREEN CARVAJAL 2012

  • Life "on Charlie Bluhdorn as the -- the mad Austrian conglomerateur, which I think is one of the funniest chapters in the book.

    Another Life: A Memoir of Other People 1999

  • Harold Geneen, the iron-fisted conglomerateur who ran ITT Corp. actually hired globe-trotting engineers to visit the company’s labs with the express mission to snuff out any and all research activity in computers.

    Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

  • Harold Geneen, the iron-fisted conglomerateur who ran ITT Corp. actually hired globe-trotting engineers to visit the company’s labs with the express mission to snuff out any and all research activity in computers.

    Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

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