With imaginative commissions from companies and tycoons, they have made Chicago architecturally the most interesting city in America.
In a culture where relationships matter mightily, he has built a considerable bank of them, extending to many taipans and tycoons.
Dan noticed that I traveled 200, 000 miles a year, giving speeches, attending conferences, schmoozing with advertisers and visiting entrepreneurs and tycoons.
It seems unfair that footballers, bankers and tycoons earn more money than they know what to do with whereas jobless folk and single parents struggle to pay the rent, notes Mr Saunders.
They can try to foster good relations between local government and local tycoons, and to reduce antagonisms with the suburbs, as Chicago has done.
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This car, fittingly, found its way to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney , descendent of both oil and railroad tycoons, and needless to say, someone to whom the Great Depression wasn't a significant deterrent to the enjoyment of the good life.
He was followed by real estate developer Wang Jianlin, machinery maker Liang Wengen, and Internet tycoons Robin Li and Ma Huateng.
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Singh, pharma entrepreneur K.Anji Reddy, vaccines-maker Cyrus Poonawalla, Rahul Bajaj, patriarch of the Bajaj Group, Baba Kalyani of Bharat Forge and tech tycoons Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar.
But there are plenty of desperate people and egoistic tycoons wanting to be cloned, and plenty of unscrupulous IVF doctors happy to relieve them of their cash.
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Bookmaker IG Index and Stagecoach transport tycoons Brian Souter and Ann Gloag are among those reported to have made claims against Mr Levene.
Debtors and former tycoons who stand to lose the most will attempt to stall the process.
She exploited the rivalries between two upstart savings-and-loans tycoons, Mark Taper and Howard Ahmanson, to extract ever bigger donations.
There was a vulgar streak in Tiny Rowland that upset other charming and ruthless tycoons who feared that he was giving money-making a bad name.
Many schools saw applications stagnate during the heady days of the late 90s dot-com boom, only for demand to soar when the bubble burst and budding tycoons decided they could safely step away from the business cauldron for a while to improve their skills.
Simon Jackson, an Australian designer who made his name catering to expats and local tycoons, did the last renovation in 1993 when the kids were teenagers, changing what had been a Spanish-style villa with a Japanese garden into a neoclassical home, adding some ornate touches and the outdoor pool, but in a "California" palette of creams and yellows.
While there remains demand for its VIP services - from footballers and presidents to visiting oil tycoons - the economic downturn and slow recovery has hurt business, especially corporate bookings.
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But it is not just tycoons and celebrities who are pulling out all the stops.
But if you think technologically-sophisticated living is reserved solely for Silicon Valley tycoons and superheroes, think again.
The stake sales may reverse the losing streak of these airline tycoons and perhaps restore their ten-figure fortunes.
Their owners are part of a small but illustrious set that includes Russian oligarchs, Saudi royalty and international business tycoons.
Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Shuvalov in the early 1990s built a lucrative practice that served many of Russia's up-and-coming tycoons.
It can be difficult to name a successful tech startup from Hong Kong, home to real estate tycoons and investment bankers.
As justice minister, she now faces down tycoons and politicians used to a minister who takes orders rather than gives them.
Two nights earlier, he had mixed with Thai tycoons and others at an evening event at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Dubai.
Hildebrand is one of the more secretive of American oil-and-gas tycoons.
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Noer will sit down with a special guest to glean insights for aspiring young tycoons and discuss how his guest made it so big, so quickly.
It seems like innocent fun, but Dr Church was anxious this new tradition was closing down a more complex historical back-story featuring Scottish kings, German merchants and American oil tycoons.
On the other hand, as the Treasury paper lays out, non-doms, who include shipping tycoons and City high-fliers, pack an economic punch much weightier than their number, currently around 115, 000.
During the robber-baron years, when wealthy industrialists and newly minted tycoons avidly acquired Old Master art as signs of status, Americans' appetite for Rembrandts was so keen that attributions were often extremely optimistic.
The collections of European paintings and sculpture of Henry Frick, Andrew Mellon and other pioneering tycoons, bought when they became rich, were the foundations of America's great national art galleries in New York and Washington.
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