They are about data and spatial awareness, but also about money, empire and discovery.
Since then, he has built Pirates into a money-spinning empire while benefiting from the sale of some of the club's star players to overseas teams.
Federico built a Chrysler-dealership empire with the money, and moved the family into a white modernist mansion.
Much of the money to bankroll her art empire comes from the classified ad publishing company she cofounded in 1987 with John MacBain, her former husband.
This strategic development allows Moscow to recruit, for the first time, Western securities firms, pension funds, insurance companies, corporations, and even individuals as lenders of untied money to support the Soviet external empire.
The empire's per capita money supply, measured as a multiple of the amount needed for subsistence, was nearly 80% as much as circulates in the U.S. today.
Using other people's money has been a hallmark of Davis' empire, going back to his days as a wildcatter succeeding to his father's oil business.
Not that the Carlton boss is one to throw money around recklessly - he has built his empire on an aggressive buying strategy, but keeps a firm eye on the bottom line, abhoring debt and keeping what he calls "old-fashioned" accounts.
But take the Empire State Building, which consistently lost money for its owners every year of its first two decades of existence.
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In other words, the man who presides over an empire premised on pots of disposable income contended that money was no longer the reserve currency of status.
The money is said to have been used in connection with the business empire he and his family built up during his 32-year reign.
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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Yet, simply moderating its views on the social issues will be insufficient to entice libertarians back into the fold as long as the core of the party remains empire builders and warmongers, big spenders, paper-money inflationists and crony capitalists.
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