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Part of the logic of installing Monti as prime minister was to cancel the TV magnate's embarrassing presence from the international scene and restore to Italy some much-needed credibility.
ECB cuts interest rates as crunch summit begins - Thursday December 8 2011 2011
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In a trial whose next hearing is set for March 11, Berlusconi is accused of bribing British lawyer David Mills to lie in court in the 1990s to protect the media magnate's business interests.
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Overleaf, after Rupert Murdoch's summer party, James Robinson assesses who is up and who is down at the media magnate's London court, while on page 5 Patrick Foster profiles a billionaire who plays the new media scene better than anybody – Top Shop mogul Sir Philip Green.
How proprietors are taking over the biggest media companies in the UK 2011
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Overleaf, after Rupert Murdoch's summer party, James Robinson assesses who is up and who is down at the media magnate's London court, while on page 5 Patrick Foster profiles a billionaire who plays the new media scene better than anybody – Top Shop mogul Sir Philip Green.
How proprietors are taking over the biggest media companies in the UK 2011
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The chicken magnate's 73p-a-share offer is intended as a knockout blow to ensure Greencore walks away.
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NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin and Donald Trump exchanged words of admiration Tuesday after a brief meeting at the real estate magnate's penthouse in a Manhattan skyscraper bearing his name.
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Meet In New York City The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Bloomberg The coffee magnate's clarion call might be more credible if he hadn't given exclusively to Democrats over the past decade.
Starbucks CEO Says Boycott Pols Allysia Finley 2011
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The US court of appeal's decision to grant Conrad Black bail is one more stunning episode in the former newspaper magnate's seemingly unending personal saga.
Conrad Black: the saga continues George Tombs 2010
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Silvio Berlusconi's longest standing ally presented him with an ultimatum that could herald the beginning of the end of the TV magnate's government.
Silvio Berlusconi under pressure after Gianfranco Fini's ultimatum John Hooper in Rome 2010
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Their leader, who called himself Subcomandante Marcos, was a white, upper-middle-class furniture magnate's son from Tampico who had absorbed French-style Marxism at UNAM and served with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
High hopes, baffling uncertainty: Mexico nears the millennium 2008
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