The former school dropout built a retail empire that made him into the richest person in China in 2006.
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From a one-room office, they created an empire now made up of 76 companies and 1, 100 employees, many of them minorities.
The Roman Empire had made puny engineering, technological and artistic advances because it relied on copious use of human brawn, not brains.
They took over the successful perfume business begun by their extraordinarily perspicacious mother Estee Lauder and built it into a global empire that made Revlon look like a scruffy second rate operation.
Whatever the case, only some of the company's empire-building made sense.
Daniel Thomas, a former Kansas State running back who now plays for the Miami Dolphins, said the opportunity to see landmarks like Times Square and the Empire State Building made the trip memorable.
Bonaparte destroyed the Holy Roman Empire, but that made possible the unification of Germany and the deadly mutation of Prussian nationalism.
These folks were replaced with both internal and external hires, even one from AB InBev, the global beer empire where the 3G founders made a lot of their money.
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Moving into the media world is a logical move for Branson, and while he is not a major threat to Murdoch's empire, the Australian has made it clear he wants to protect his territory, Benjamin said.
On December 21, our plane skidded into the heart of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire in a whiteout blizzard that made Vienna resemble an 18th-century snow-globe.
As a modern example, he spoke of his own relief when he heard that the Soviets, whose empire he otherwise loathed, had finally made a nuclear weapon of their own.
The mausoleum of Galla Placidia, sister of Flavius Honorius, the very man who made Ravenna the capital of the Western Empire.
When decent profits were being made in one part of a corporate empire, say, just as an example, Latin American telephone systems, then those profits were used internally to fund the purchase of North American hotel chains.
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After 70 years of world-class culture-building and an empire of nearly 350, 000 employees, HP has lately made a habit of going outside the organization to find its CEOs.
Metal detectors have been used on the site, turning up large quantities of lead, while other finds included high quality Samian ware pottery, made France, and exported all over the Roman Empire.
He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997.
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Brian is planning on developing his empire of cappuccinos and lattes, to include an array to freshly made pizzas.
Political scientist Professor Gun Kut says that when the Republic was founded by Kemal Ataturk in 1924, much of the population was made up of migrants from former parts of the Ottoman Empire.
Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.
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After World War I the defeated Ottoman Empire's most successful general, Mustafa Kemal , took over and made the revolutionary decision that Turkey's future lay in tying itself firmly to the West.
It may be that broad trends, such as the triumph of notions of progress, the decline of the Ottoman empire, the advance of mechanisation and the emergence of international capital markets, made the construction of the canal inevitable.
Railways, fast steamships and then the telegraph made it possible to expand, police and govern a vast, sprawling empire in ways that had previously been impossible with a relatively small army and administrative class.
Mr. Paulson has made a very successful career, an immense personal fortune and an astounding financial empire at the New York-based investment house, Goldman Sachs.
Taking their places are 4 newcomers, including Micky Jagtiani, who oversees a retailing empire in the Middle East, and Hemant Shah , son of a Bollywood film producer, who made his fortune in construction.
It is a situation made to order for Iran, with its aspirations to dominate the region in a new caliphate, or empire.
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