Building that team is job one for the entrepreneur who shifts, as she did, from a lifestyle business owner to an empire builder.

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Amtrak's comparable train, the Empire Builder, got an upgrade last summer.

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To get their story on this empire builder, Toni Mack and Phyllis Berman spent months chasing down business associates, cable television analysts and investment bankers who know Allen or understand some piece of his grand strategy.

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It could be betting that by hopping on the bus with Valero's empire builder, Chairman and Chief Executive William Greehey , it will end up with greater shareholder value than by continuing to go it alone.

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It seems a development team at MicroProse has been working on Star Trek: The Next Generation--Birth of the Federation, a new Trek-based empire builder built upon the foundation set by MicroProse's Civ II and Master of Orion II.

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