John Malone made many shareholders rich, but he made himself the richest of all.
He walked in, looked around, hung his jacket on a chair, and made himself at home.
Of course, the general, as he soon made himself, had a difficult part to play.
He made himself incredibly useful, creating a protective cocoon within which the hackers could work.
Jack Straw has made himself a hate figure among liberals by out-toughing Michael Howard on crime.
He made himself available to speak in person or by phone, and offered to keep conversations brief.
"In the process he has made himself an island in the ownership ranks, " says Ganis of Sportscorp.
Akin has made himself the focus on his apology, not the millions of women he had insulted.
Newspapers indignantly portrayed him as a martinet who had made himself prime minister in all but name.
By effectively blowing the whistle on the operation, Mr Howard has made himself unpopular with some police chiefs.
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Yet, for a time last week, the president made himself scarce, retiring to Lubumbashi in his home area.
He was intensely private, yet made himself accessible to poor blacks to whom no one else would listen.
"My younger brother made himself a harmonica out of a corncob, and I didn't need no microphone, " she said.
Of the two elder Arnault siblings, Antoine is the one who has made himself more accessible to the public.
Porter not only got into the club (if there was indeed a club), he made himself the center of it.
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Schumpeter made himself a giant of 20th-century economics with one big idea: the role of the entrepreneur in an economy.
Milken had filled a gap in the market, and he made himself and his company extremely wealthy by doing so.
Unlike his predecessor, who made himself available for frequent interrogation by parliament, Mr Thaksin rarely sets foot in the building.
Back in the 1990s, Gingrich made himself one of the most disliked figures in the recent history of American politics.
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Mr Streiff made himself especially unpopular when he said it would take 15 years to get Airbus back on track.
Ryder then made himself unavailable for New Zealand selection, turning down a national contract to deal with alcohol and fitness issues.
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Mr Schwarzman has made himself a target because the secrecy that his outfit has employed to such good effect has slipped.
This time Spurlock has made himself into the darling of corporate marketing and created a film entirely funded by product placement.
One who made himself and not just his fortune out of nothing.
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"He qualifies on residency and has made himself available, " said a spokesman.
As a boy, he made himself red epaulets, wore baseball pants and ran around with a French flag his mother made for him.
The final decision to declare himself fit to return in time for the Heineken Cup quarter-final defeat was one that Tindall made himself.
He had made himself Italy's longest-serving post-war leader by purveying unceasing optimism to an electorate naturally inclined to look on the bright side.
In contrast to his relatively low profile over the last few years, "Justin Timberlake has made himself as accessible as he can, " Johnson said.
And by then Mr Berlusconi had made himself interim finance minister, although some advisers are still suggesting a new appointment will soon be made.
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