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These days coal barons are like newspaper barons: however rich and successful, they are shackled to a dying industry.
A banner with Callander's number with the Lumberjacks, 15, hangs in the rafters at Quicken Loans Arena, next to the No. 1 worn by Barons' goaltender Johnny Bower, the No. 9 worn by Barons center Fred Glover and another banner commemorating the Barons' Calder Cups.
Many of its barons are long forgotten, dead or disgraced.
So, the bad news: We're not all recycling robber barons.
First were the sugar barons, now it's the pharmaceutical companies.
Then the police finally caught up with the fentanyl barons.
Its barons like to boast of revamping the companies they buy.
The suburbs are dotted with the palaces of former industrial barons.
Just substitute billionaire oil barons and sheriffs for cowboys and marshals.
The protest left the barons building the railroad shaken, he said.
Complicating things further, sugar barons often become politicians, and vice versa.
Here float the ghosts of robber barons, real estate titans, politicians, thieves.
Such attitudes explain why German business barons have kept a low profile.
Mr White applies the same technique to companies that those barons created.
They say it aims to stop local drugs barons from winning posts.
Because the truth is there are other barons in the world now.
This would mean a tax increase for the barons of private equity.
Among other things, I doubt Vermont is full of billionaire dairy barons.
Are the tycoons who control Silicon Valley the robber barons of today?
Highlands provide sanctuary to ISIS, cocaine barons, Al Qaeda and countless insurgents.
In Bulgaria, a handful of grain barons receive most of the subsidies.
Here's more on Cainiao for those who appreciate cute videos: Hat tip Barons
German business barons have guarded their privacy more jealously than those from elsewhere.
During that time, Superman took on crooked politicians, villainous oil barons and gangsters.
Increasingly regional barons have taken up positions in Luthuli House, the ANC headquarters.
The show takes place in a post-apocalyptic world controlled by feudal barons.
So are the oligarchs and robber barons who have proliferated across the country.
Ellis describes "barons" who contract middle-ranking "strikers", who run small-fry couriers.
America's original robber barons provoked a reaction that led to the Progressive era.
The robber barons of the 19th and 20th centuries were kings of infrastructure.
But buyout barons will be laughing compared to those who financed their deals.
Ending a loophole on investment profit for buyout barons would bring in more.
Albania is unique in Europe because its drug barons are not renegade outlaws.
After arson destroyed one Chinatown, robber barons and policymakers prevented former inhabitants from rebuilding.
Later a liberal state tamed market abuses in the form of America's robber barons.
These days, wealthy philanthropists become press barons by rescuing publications like Mr Luce's brainchild.
The barons of the buyout industry may need to buy one another out next.
New-economy behemoths are exercising a market dominance not seen since America's robber barons.
What's old is new again in the hands of today's barons of digital infrastructure.
Unlike the robber barons of yore, today's Wall Street tycoons don't build anything tangible.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
But ending a loophole on investment profit for buyout barons would bring in more.
Incumbent Premier Christy Clark slammed "lumber barons" in a campaign speech earlier on Monday.
I have to see a Birmingham Barons baseball game at the new ballpark downtown.
A Rohingya elite served as lawyers, doctors and property barons; others fished and farmed.
Rockefellers knocked elbows with Vanderbilts and Whitneys; dukes bumped up against earls and barons.
The grand era of cowboys and cattle barons would last less than two decades.
Last month, the vice president hosted Kelly and Joe Craft, coal barons from Kentucky.
At best, it's an industry of personalities; at worst, one of villainous robber barons.
Irrigation developers controlled water, cattle barons controlled the grass, and settlers were essentially locked out.
Maybe don't get too excited: The modern robber barons aren't backing down without a fight.
Say Getty, and you think of stingy oil barons, art museums, and a shocking kidnapping.
This alarmed most of the PSOE's powerful regional barons and all of its previous leaders.
His innovations — the Federal Reserve and income tax, trustbusting the robber barons — paid off handsomely.
These land barons, as it turns out, are financed and emboldened by the European Union.
Techies' tremendous wealth has made it easy to draw comparisons to last century's robber barons.
Self-described "conservatives" blew up the deficit while a "liberal" president bailed out robber barons.
If the challenge just involved negotiations between two Republican barons, a deal would be struck.
The rubber barons, legend has it, persuaded Enrico Caruso to journey here and sing Verdi.
With the North Stars, Mr. Bush directed the merger with the Cleveland Barons in 1978.
So here 100 is C. Mix that up with "snooty" and get TYCOONS, or barons.
Scepticism abounded when its owner, Domaines Barons de Rothschild, put down roots a decade ago.
By 1968, cattle use was nearly as intense as during the days of the cattle barons.
Unlike Thiel, the Gilded Age robber barons knew the difference between their businesses and charitable endeavors.
The old private-sector trade union barons who dominated the party in the 1970s have disappeared.
Some of these robber barons were willing to spread their wealth around — in exchange for immortality.
The lands of over 4,000 English lords passed to fewer than 200 Norman and French barons.
Among the escapees are eight barons, united under the banner of a guy named Uldren Sov.
Repression is one challenge for Ethiopia's would-be press barons; a tough business environment is another.
But it also offered assurances to the party's veteran congressional barons that Obama's operation was legit.
Throughout his youth, his father railed against the robber barons, condemning the concentration of extreme wealth.
Even the coal barons don't believe Trump's rear-guard battle can bring back US coal jobs.
At first glance, Zinke is the slightly less predictable wildcard in Trump's cohort of oil barons.
The result was an extended boom that created a wealthy class of mine barons and officials.
It was fakery dished out by railroad barons, paid scientists and P.R. men to credulous reporters.
As they stand, the rules ensure that private-equity barons win, no matter who else loses.
In meetings with central-government leaders, Western bosses would talk up their positive experiences, both out of caution and because they saw little point in raising problems caused by powerful provincial and local barons, knowing that the central government might simply ask those barons to investigate themselves.
Each of Forsaken's barons is defined by their weapon of choice or some other outward personality quirk.
The Whitney Restaurant in Detroit was the former mansion of one of the area's wealthiest lumber barons.
Greener and cleaner than the emerald barons, the companies leave less behind for guaqueros to sift through.
" They are modern-day railroad barons: Amazon, Khan told me, should be viewed "as an infrastructure company.
Think of Google as Standard Oil, Facebook as U.S. Steel, and the other three as railroad barons.
The total includes Major League Baseball's Indians and the N.H.L.'s Barons, who lasted only two seasons.
The young innovators of Silicon Valley were not like the largely amoral barons of industry and finance.
RIONEGRO, Colombia — Like many drug barons in Colombia, Federico Cock-Correa wants to sell his product globally.
Much of it is frontierland with little infrastructure, populated by cattle barons, crocodile hunters and aboriginal settlements.
It's in the vested interests of the robber barons to keep all us workers using fitted sheets!
The old barons had many problems, but at least they were occasionally interested in getting things done.
Flush with millions, these tycoons — for all their disrepute as robber barons — enhanced the great cultural institutions.
The administration was not pleased with the choice, and refused to recognize Robber Barons as Stanford's mascot.
Yet again, antitrust enforcers have not stopped these new robber barons from buying up their nascent competitors.
"Two billionaire press barons now own half of the top 10 daily newspapers," Corbyn said on Twitter.
Exit the robber barons (and the real aristocrats); enter the cold-eyed oligarchs and their murderous henchmen.
You see it today with tech the way you saw it with steel barons 100 years ago.
The family of media barons at the center of HBO's "Succession" seem to travel exclusively by helicopter.
She went full prairie populist, telling people their pain and suffering was caused by predatory pharmaceutical barons.
When I was on the Double-A Orlando Cubs, I played against Jordan and the Birmingham Barons.
The bank robbers, kidnappers, Mafiosi, gangbangers, and Wall Street robber barons would still receive some deserved attention.
They were the 1 percent, the Wall Street barons, the manifestation of the evils of income inequality.
These rarely resemble true corruption barons, and often are figures deemed to be inconvenient by the Kremlin.
Kohn, currently chairman of Swiss investment banking advisory firm Barons Financial Services, was also not immediately available.
"Even the Victorian-era robber barons who built all these mansions were living there," Mr. Levine said.
Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that the EPA boss secured court-side tickets to a Kentucky college basketball game last year thanks to a longtime friendship with billionaire coal barons in the state—barons whose business seems to have benefited tangibly from their friendship with him.
We're inching ever close to a science fiction future, one where the future billionaires might be asteroid barons.
The tanker barons pass their expenses on to their customers, sending signals about the real price of water.
So we're being gross, and the pool barons aren't doing enough to combat our blatant disregard for sanitation.
It's better than vague "cloud" language, but it has the unfortunate connotation of robber barons and global conflict.
That suggests Black and his fellow buyout barons have considerable room for error built into their mega-funds.
In the 2000s the party devolved more power to the nine provinces, encouraging the growth of local barons.
Big data companies yoke the values of the millennium left with the business practices of the robber barons.
Consequently, Indigenous peoples experience endemic poverty, while oil oligarchs, mining barons and hereditary elites revel in extraordinary wealth.
In other words, those ultra-premium tins from Russian caviar barons probably contain eggs from the People's Republic.
America never had any formal barons or royal families who could pass down gargantuan landholdings to subsequent generations.
English barons wrote the document and forced King John to consent to it to prevent a civil war.
Teddy Roosevelt advocated his "New Nationalism" as a counterbalance to the seemingly unchecked power of the robber barons.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, America had reined in the behemoths built by robber barons.
But that economy produced businessmen so wealthy they were eventually resented and viewed as industrialists and robber barons.
Members of parliament, ministers, regional barons, regulators, central bankers and bosses of state enterprises have also been indicted.
Nonfiction THE SPACE BARONS Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos By Christian Davenport Illustrated.
These are the entrepreneurs of outrage and barons of bigotry who have paved the way for Donald Trump's rise.
All their good works did not prevent Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller from being remembered as robber barons.
Akerman had clashed with the country's new tycoons—notably railroad barons like Jay Gould—and they wanted him out.
The Falcons became the Barons in 1936 and won the Calder Cup nine times before moving to Jacksonville, Fla.
For two seasons in the mid-'70s, Cleveland had an N.H.L. team, also called the Barons, which drew poorly.
It was the city's first Calder Cup since the now-defunct Cleveland Barons swept the Quebec Aces in 1964.
So in 2000, Mr. DeMeyer got with the times and pledged fealty to one of the city's financial barons.
The new barons of capital and technology thrive while the American middle class stagnates and the American dream fades.
At the turn of the 237th century, they were as rich and powerful as the digital barons are now.
That suggests that Mr. Black and his fellow buyout barons have considerable room for error built into their megafunds.
For now, Ripley's is replacing it with an autographed Michael Jordan bat from his time with the Birmingham Barons.
They did the same thing that they did to the oil barons back at the turn of the century.
Today, Celsius has 286,000 subscribers to his channel, and stands as one of the true vibe barons on the internet.
She will also skip three state elections in east Germany this autumn, to the relief of some local party barons.
Contemporaries such as Ida Tarbell did a good job of demonising John D. Rockefeller and other tycoons as "robber barons".
Designed in the early 28500th Century, corporate taxes initially addressed the gross inequities during the age of the robber barons.
The decision led to an end of the American Gilded Age, with trust busting shifting power away from robber barons.
When cattle barons, sanctioned by the government, threaten a group of hardworking Eastern European farmers, the people stand their ground.
It called on Manila to "prioritize" the fight against trafficking networks and drug barons over tracking down small-scale consumers.
Donald Trump has reached the phase of his campaign where he tries to solicit huge checks from Wall Street barons.
Stanford's administration was upset because Robber Barons was a not-so-subtle dig at the university's founding father, Leland Stanford.
It was Mr. Farage's accomplishment to have corralled these forces — donors, press barons and influencers — behind his single-issue cause.
A Boston scout, George Digby, arranged to buy Mays from the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues for $4,500.
Back-room negotiations involving party barons have failed to produce an alternative candidate, nor to persuade Mr. Fillon to quit.
Contributing Opinion Writer You could always slight the very rich by calling them moneybags, robber barons, fat cats or plutocrats.
With the middle class leaving in droves, California society represents a modern feudal system of robber barons and the poor.
She said, "These people," by which she meant sort of the tech barons, but just the plutocratic class more generally.
The film's central figure, he is the last survivor of the Cohiuano, an Amazonian tribe killed off by the rubber barons.
"The Space Barons," by Christian Davenport, a Washington Post reporter, is an exciting narrative filled with colorful reporting and sharp insights.
There was King Louis the Fat, who ruled from 1108 to 1137, pacified unruly barons, centralised power and won several wars.
Since foundations were first used by the robber barons as a way to avoid taxes while appearing philanthropic, they have ballooned.
In Romania, political parties depend on the backing of the country's television barons, who use their channels to punish their enemies.
Thus, many argue, we need a new generation of trustbusters to save us from the robber barons of tech and banking.
Scholars are comparing the era to the Gilded Age of robber barons, when the issue of trusts first gained popular infamy.
European subsidies have helped underwrite Mafia-style tactics in Slovakia and enrich a cadre of politically powerful land barons in Bulgaria.
The story follows a lawman struggling to bring his territory to order when wealthy cattle barons declare war on immigrant settlers.
While there, Rushdie counted among his neighbors arms dealers, newspaper barons, South Asian royalty, and members of the House of Saud.
At the turn of the century, railroad barons implemented them, eager to remove aging workers from their ranks without political blowback.
It is hardly unprecedented for American media barons to go beyond their pages to try to influence the course of politics.
He began with a libertarian lecture, extolling the genius of the 19th-century robber barons who created the country's philanthropic charities.
Other Robber Barons included the likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan, who also named many institutions after themselves.
The steel magnate and other robber barons warded off political challenges to their monopolies for decades before Woodrow Wilson ended them.
By the late 19th century, America's robber barons were soon living up to their name by stripping Europe of its treasures.
That investment is tantamount to Michael Jordan hitting a grand slam on his first at bat wearing a Birmingham Barons hat.
Mr Trump's final campaign video scorned the robber barons of the global elite as it displayed an image of Mr Blankfein.
The tech billionaires didn't make their money by founding public institutions; indeed, some of them look more like the new robber barons.
At the time, the lawmaker likened Zuckerberg's plans to those of sugar barons who took land from native Hawaiians in the 1800s.
It is not unusual for property barons to ride a business boom—think of suburbia at the dawn of the motor age.
Officials say the new defences will keep out the drug barons and the risk of a spillover of Morocco's growing Berber unrest.
That wound up being his last NHL action, although he went on to play nearly a decade with the AHL's Cleveland Barons.
The distrust of property barons and the fear of losing one's home runs deep on the island, permeating the residents' collective conscience.
In the battle between the barons of buybacks and the divas of dividends, the divas are getting out to an early lead.
How many victories could they expect to win against the coal barons and the oligarchy they'd established in the West Virginia hills?
Social Darwinism held that the robber barons scrambled to the top of the heap because they were the fittest and most worthy.
Like the robber barons, the captains of new technology are replacing a freewheeling culture with the rule of a handful of corporations.
Keeping hedge fund managers and oil barons drugged up in a hazy glow of overflowing offshore accounts and champagne soaked private jets.
Sports of The Times MANAUS, Brazil — Our tale takes metaphorical root in the early 2000s and the fevered imaginings of rubber barons.
It was Cleveland's first professional hockey title since the Barons, a previous A.H.L. team, won the Calder Cup way back in 2198.
In roughly chronological order, British silk mill owners give way to the Boston barons who developed the factory town of Lowell, Mass.
Plus or minus a small French contingent and a few sons of Venezuelan oil barons, these were my people, luckily and shamefully.
To the barons of the appropriations committees, which had long dominated the legislative budget process, the office seemed to threaten their power.
Then they should compare and contrast the business practices of these five technology companies and their leaders with the original robber barons.
The charges relate to Netanyahu's relationships with rich friends, and favors he allegedly offered to media barons in return for positive coverage.
Mr. Ross's flexible approach to trade is characteristic of many private equity barons focused on the bottom line, his former associates say.
The moment that we quit resisting is the moment that the bankers, billionaires and oil barons seize our land for their profits.
After expressing concern about political rhetoric lambasting property barons, Scottish Land & Estates, a landowners' association, issued a cautious statement on the bill.
The robber barons and artificially high real estate values in California brought its economy back to the fifth largest in the world.
The Habsburgs charmed their subjects by giving them relative freedom, material benefits and protection under the law from the whims of local barons.
A Chinese Lafite: A Shandong Province estate owned by Domaines Barons de Rothschild has produced a world-class wine made entirely in China.
Just 19 months ago his political career seemed over, after he was deposed as leader of the Socialist party by its regional barons.
Are the oil barons and princes buying the work and supporting Lin going to change their naughty ways now that they've been schooled?
The question is whether the barons of Silicon Valley can move beyond ritual statements of regret and assurance to a genuine self-accounting.
The chaos ushered in hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and invited the undue influence of banks, media barons and successive governments.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry gives bear hugs to coal barons while doing all he can to have the government prop up their industry.
The name of that war, the most accurate name was the War of Northern Aggression, of the Northeastern establishment slave trader robber barons.
At a Roman Catholic mission, a Spanish priest presides over a flock of boys orphaned by the conflicts between rubber barons and indigenous tribes.
When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing.
As the first Socialist leader chosen in a primary of the membership, he claimed the backing of the grass-roots, ignoring the regional barons.
The place should find avid fans among solitary bibliophiles, cocooning couples, design-magazine devotees and former publishing barons nostalgic for the heyday of print.
Rarely has such a group of billionaires, hedge-fund barons, mining firms, government officials and go-betweens been snagged in such a woeful saga.
Cimino's next film, "Heaven's Gate," a bloated epic Western about a clash between immigrants and land barons in 1890s Wyoming, was a spectacular bomb.
Things calmed down after the barons made peace in 1990, Mr Nándar reminisces while sitting beside an outdoor hot tub at his hilltop mansion.
That revenue beat analyst expectations of 215 billion RMB, according to Barons, and net income came in at 23.38 billion RMB, or $3.48 billion.
Others branded them robber barons who used their power and riches to snuff out competition, exploit workers, and undermine democracy by bribing corrupt politicians.
Entrepreneurs in the region have been largely resistant to meddling buyout barons, preferring to borrow more themselves or hand control to the next generation.
Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie defended the robber barons as stewards of the nation's wealth, using it meaningfully, unlike workers, who would fritter it away.
Once enslaved and massacred by ruthless rubber barons in the 19th century, native peoples are now being forced off ancestral lands by mining mafias.
She was born in 1932, as the United States limped through a devastating Depression and starving Kentucky coal miners warred against greedy coal barons.
He is one of several coal barons who lobbied the administration to revisit the cost-benefit rules to set a precedent for future regulations.
It has served as a religious home for Gilded Age robber barons and a rehearsal space for Joe Papp, founder of the Public Theater.
Then rubber was discovered, and, in the eighteen-seventies, South American rubber barons began to brutalize the jungles of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil.
Wall Street barons ran off with maids, star-studded couples scandalously divorced and, not surprisingly, high-priced escorts worked the upscale bars and hotels.
He embraced the neoliberal economics of the generals and was endorsed by the secular, westernized business barons who did not mind his religious conservatism.
All the while, the trade unions that helped bury the robber barons of the past have been weakened to a point of being virtually powerless.
Spalding House itself was commissioned in 1925 by Anna Rice Cooke, the widow of one of Hawaii's sugar barons and a daughter of American missionaries.
"Their business practices walk, talk, and smell like the ones that robber barons practiced in the 19th century: 'the hell with worker protections,'" he said.
In Silicon Valley a handful of giants are enjoying market shares and profit margins not seen since the robber barons in the late 21960th century.
Comments from billionaires and business barons who have called it a bubble — including Jamie Dimon, Jack Bogle, Warren Buffett and Mark Cuban — haven't deterred believers.
"The good news is that we don't have the robber barons of the 20th century," he started but was interrupted by protests from the crowd.
The 2.1 million-hectare nature reserve in northern Guatemala is under threat from forest fires, drug traffickers and cattle barons, researchers said in a study.
The turtlenecked affectations of the venture capitalists and tech billionaires don't fit at all, here—the NFL's franchise-holding billionaires think and act like barons.
Law enforcement officers, who are supposed to prevent this, are themselves often on the take or under pressure from powerful political barons not to investigate.
Not surprisingly, tens of millions of voters have concluded that the proclamations of the national security barons amount to little more than self-serving rhetoric.
Like the Robber Barons, today's drivers of creative destruction, technology and internet entrepreneurs, "are seldom the easiest of heroes, nor the nicest," the authors note.
In 1975, Stanford's student body voted to change the university's official mascot to the "Robber Barons," a derisive nod to the university's founder, Leland Stanford.
Today, as Silicon Valley companies have become the 21st-century version of industrial barons who sculpt our information society, the same requirement should be demanded.
There are some bona fide supernovas (I admire especially Lisa Randall and Frank Wilczek), but Edge has also featured robber barons, dilettantes, and has-beens.
In no way is this lament for the era of elites and backroom bosses vetting candidates, or press barons singularly framing issues or anointing presidents.
Especially since it is the new Russian plutocracy of oil barons and oligarchs that interfered with the 2016 election in an attempt to help Trump.
His family had a long history in the region, working as guides for the rubber barons and, more recently, for oil explorers and mahogany loggers.
Today's "working robber barons" have used a tax break to create a $110 billion charity stockpile, called donor-advised funds, that isn't getting any smaller.
In the late 27101334s, robber barons like James J. Hill not only built railroads throughout the United States, they encouraged settlements and development along those lines.
Private-equity barons would no longer be shielded by limited liability: instead they would have to honour the debts of the firms in which they invest.
Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of rethinking how philanthropy works — with an eye, tech barons say, toward maximizing well-being with each dollar spent.
Those who worked for the mining barons had livelihoods that were barely more secure: instead of wages, they were paid a cut of what they found.
The FO has its roots in the organisations that oversaw the fortunes of America's 19th-century robber barons, such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, when it comes to verbal intervention the world's central bankers ain't got nothing on the oil barons.
More importantly, he pioneered "war on coal" messaging to turn support of coal industry barons into a cultural wedge issue that fueled Republican gains in Appalachia.
From the robber barons of the early 20th century to more the recent actions of Bernie Madoff, Enron and Worldcom, it's not hard to find examples.
In addition to tech and telecommunications, Trump's campaign received millions in funds from various real estate tycoons, oil barons, and automakers like General Motors and Ford.
Jean was traded to the Cleveland Barons in January 1978, then played for Minnesota before returning to the Islanders as a free agent in June 1979.
And while most highly recognized companies today do much more than the robber barons of the past, there are very few true believers, Dr. Carroll said.
Andrew M. Cuomo in his element: An audience of New York's elite, from business titans to lobbying powerhouses to real estate barons, sat rapt before him.
Properly carried out, such a system would please bankers who might welcome the chance to retrieve debts or land from princes that act like robber barons.
When the forensic report is finished, Texans will have a clearer vantage point on how the sugar barons enriched themselves by systematically working people to death.
While we grub and scrabble and claw at one another chasing these tiny pellets of self-esteem, the bug-brooch barons still pocket the actual cash.
Baldwin devoted much of his leadership to combating populist politics and powerful press barons, which he viewed as existential threats to Britain's system of parliamentary governance.
But as the role of the government evolved in the gilded age of robber barons and imperialism, Congress gradually delegated more authority to the U.S. Treasury.
The Museum of Modern Art was launched in the late 1920s with money amassed by John D. Rockefeller, possibly the most rapacious of the robber barons.
In 1944, Roosevelt, who had kept his distance since taking office, invited the Negro press barons to the White House and turned on that thousand-watt smile.
Founded in 2015 by three former private equity barons, the company has raised a total of $1.1 billion to date from SoftBank, Foxconn, Greenoaks Capital and others.
These days country-music stars live in some of the oil barons' grand villas but, by way of compensation for the economic pendulum, the paternalism lives on.
The deal between an unpopular king and rebellious barons marked the beginning of individual English freedoms, personal liberties, and due-process protection of individuals under the law.
He claims that the gifts were "between friends" and that none of his dealings with media owners went beyond the normal interactions between politicians and press barons.
The individuals affected are a mixed bunch, including figures such as Viktor Vekselberg and Suleiman Kerimov, who are barons of business but hardly Mr Putin's closest cronies.
This tradition has existed for centuries but has altered radically with the proliferation of weapons and involvement of cattle barons who use cows as roving bank accounts.
It's a debate that's been going on for more than a century, back to the days of the railroad barons, and probably will continue for another century.
Newly built luxury apartments and stately Tudor mansions erected by auto barons in the last century sit within a mile or two of burned-out frame houses.
"The party barons helped internally by making the big mistake of immediately criticizing him, because that instead created a movement of solidarity around Sánchez," Professor Simón added.
But when you have neo-Nazis and drug barons on one side and innocent or psychologically vulnerable men on the other, the waters become a little murkier.
Miami Marlins America's foundation is being gutted by billionaire robber barons selling off businesses piece by piece in order to turn a profit that leaves employees devastated.
We lauded robber barons like John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould for their business success, but no one suggested for a second that they were statesman material.
Professor Carpenter said the barons were angry with the taxes that the king was levying to fund foreign wars and his abuse of justice, among other issues.
That is a far cry from the analog days, when media barons controlled how their publications reached the public and collected all the ad income they generated.
In a special student referendum in 1975, "Robber Barons" secured the most first and second place votes (1,664), beating out Sequoias (1,18923), Trees (1,530), and Cardinals (1309).
The clock is a testament to willful blindness, as today's tech barons whistle past the grim realities of the oncoming catastrophe that is man-made climate destabilization.
Instead of a Mad Max-inflected Earth with a '50s Raygun Gothic aesthetic, it portrays a far future where the Gilded Age of robber barons never ended.
"The big broadband barons and their Republican allies want to turn back the clock and make big cable and big cellphone companies the gatekeepers for internet access," Sen.
The fear that big firms might come to dominate the economy and political life has its roots in the era of the robber barons of the 19th century.
He became a spectral presence in his compound in Siboney, a leafy enclave in the west of Havana of mansions built by the sugar barons he had expropriated.
As rumour swirled and party barons plotted, Ms Nahles sought to flush out her internal enemies by putting her leadership of its parliamentary group up for early election.
Flying cars can be very expensive to produce, and so far many of the projects in the works seem geared more toward oil barons than gas station attendants.
Economies of scale and technological innovation caused productivity to rise and prices to fall, allowing the robber barons to present consolidation as the friend of the common man.
Steel barons built mills along the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie, drawn both by the supply of iron ore and by excellent transport links to the east coast.
But his third, "Heaven's Gate" (1980), a vast narrative of struggle between cattle barons and immigrants in late-19th-century Wyoming, was the biggest flop in Hollywood history.
These tycoons, who are often likened to the robber barons of America's Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, would go on to amass vast fortunes.
The very reason that the national forests came into being was to protect lands and watersheds from robber barons who were stripping the West of its natural resources.
There's been far too much slobbering over barons of the new economy in the last 15 years for readers to understand that this narrative may be slightly different.
"Let's put an end to the robber barons!" investor activist Hans-Jacob Heitz urged shareholders at Credit Suisse's annual general meeting in which others also criticised the payouts.
She has to know that runaway costs are the result of a fundamental lack of market forces operating in health care, not just robber barons ripping us off.
A new class of gold barons emerged, many of whom are familiar names associated with smuggling and narco-trafficking who enjoy close relationships with high-level government officials.
Will it similarly spurn gifts or return gifts from oil robber barons, sugary drink moguls, banking institutions with devious practices and foreign potentates who stone their own citizens?
He delivers a painstaking history of how public land became real estate, and how hundreds if not thousands of people were pushed aside by one or two barons.
The more Wild West the business environment, the more the hustler is elevated to folk hero or legend, much the same way that the robber barons once were.
The show was shot mostly in Los Angeles and looks like it, and its glitzy boomtown of 10-gallon Stetsons and freewheeling oil barons was a fairy tale.
Following the Great Depression in the United States, an important market for Brazilian beans, the city's coffee barons started selling their estates to be converted into apartment blocks.
But unlike the dozens of other would-be whiskey barons setting up shop in Kentucky these days, Mr. Heron and his wife, Lesley, weren't interested in making bourbon.
One of the biggest smuggling barons, Chafik Jarraya, was arrested May 23 and charged with treason and intelligence links to a neighboring country — widely understood to be Libya.
Thanks to a certain terrible-but-ubiquitous board game, the old robber barons of the Gilded Age are still widely recognized as the symbol for monopoly in America.
Following the Great Depression in the United States, an important market for Brazilian beans, the city's coffee barons started selling their estates to be converted into apartment blocks.
It is a staggering cocktail of collapse, too readily labeled by the White House as the product of the personal economic ambitions of migrants, or simply corrupt narco-barons.
He is right that capitalism is going through a worrying period of concentration: the tech oligarchs now enjoy market shares not seen since the days of the robber barons.
Theologians at the time, like the Baptist minister Walter Rauschenbusch, then gave a theological understanding to the ongoing struggles of these working Christians against the Gilded Age robber barons.
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When we see like those big railroad barons with the big top hat and the handlebar mustache, we think of them as looking evil, but that was the style.
And, of course, his version of "draining the swamp" has brought a level of corruption to official Washington that would have embarrassed the congressional barons of the Gilded Age.
Published in 1950, it tells the tale of Delos D. Harriman, the "last of the robber barons," who is hell-bent on being the first man on the moon.
It was designed to test whether the world was experiencing a new era of "robber barons"—a global re-run of America's gilded age in the late 193th century.
Its 450-odd pages are packed with observations about entrepreneurs, organized corporations, robber barons, the benefits businesses can bring societies and their owners and how governments interact with companies.
His clients commissioned personalized etched patterns on their drinking vessels: Cuban officials wanted palm tree motifs, and robber barons asked for their monograms and the names of their yachts.
The demonization of the wealthy continued as candidates spoke of how the 1 percent was like a class of robber barons avoiding taxes or paying little back to society.
The stately Victorian and Edwardian mansions lining Millionaire's Row stand as evidence of a bygone era built in the years after the Civil War by tobacco and textile barons.
Part visionary, part snake oil salesman, he may have thought of himself as a bona fide creator of wealth, unique amid Latin America's coddled barons of industry and commerce.
Corbyn devoted a whole section of his speech to having yet another pop at the "press barons" and their failure to swing the last general election for Theresa May.
"The big broadband barons want to turn back the clock and undo these fundamental consumer protections so they can freely collect and profit from customer's sensitive personal information," Sen.
Instead, the steel barons were brought to heel — something more easily done by a vast authoritarian bureaucracy than a lone strongman who needs to worry about his inner circle.
Silicon Valley is no longer the quirky, exciting darling of the future, but instead, a new sort of Wall Street menace with younger, hoodie-wearing barons wielding unprecedented power.
"I guess would be surprised if there were no university displeasure with Robber Barons," Robert Rosenz-Weig, the university's VP for public affairs, told The Stanford Daily in 1975.
The new book also concerns a rape case in Lake County, this one in 1957, the victim this time the wife of one of the region's rising citrus barons.
Real estate barons wanting something to hang on the walls of their mansions and owners of large hotels in San Francisco were in the market for paintings like these.
He's directed movies about clinically insane glassblowers and celebrity hermits, rubber barons and prisoners of war—an altogether bleak, bizarre collection of work about the extremes of human existence.
In the 1980s, to take two examples, Raúl Alfonsín in Argentina put military dictators on trial and Luis Carlos Galán in Colombia defied drug barons, paying with his life.
Jay Gould and the robber barons would have envied the way Foxconn could benefit from Governor Walker's reckless giveaway of tax subsidies and hard-won protections of the environment.
After Trump's election victory, Kushner paved the way for Cohn to meet the president-elect, who had spent much of the campaign blasting investment banks as modern-day robber barons.
But the barons of the Beltway had an agenda of their own: they wanted Clinton to put two of his signature issues on the back-burner: welfare and political reform.
The president has delegated most day-to-day decision-making to a cadre of former CEOs, Wall Street bankers and ex-lobbyists: the "robber barons", as Mrs Warren called them.
So over the course of the story, you track down each of the barons, plus Uldren, and use your many space guns to kill them in the name of vengeance.
FoW reader W.Spackman linked to this July report by Deloitte, which said income inequality today is comparable with the Gilded Age of robber barons, in the 19th century (Figure 3).
Legitimate claims of disabling injury and persistent conditions such as black lung are now fought tooth and nail by the coal barons, the most powerful political force in the state.
Train mergers have been an explosive subject for over a century, with a dread of isolation or exploitation at the hands of railway robber-barons lodged deep in America's subconscious.
"I call on our industrialists, investors, commercial barons to put up factories and manufacturing establishments right here in the Philippines to process our raw materials into finished products," he said.
After chasing the animal around the pool for a few minutes, the Barons were able to wrangles the gator out of the water, and transfer the reptile to a tank.
The decades after the civil war saw bursts of intense competition in America's two leading industries, oil refining and steelmaking, in which the robber barons quickly built up giant companies.
Our book relates the story of the steel industry of the early 20th century, when barons such as Andrew Carnegie actually sought government regulation to bring "stability" to the industry.
"The new robber barons have come to power, and intend to hold on to it, on the wings of xenophobia," Mehta writes — a postelection explainer that has become a truism.
Howell was later general manager of the N.H.L.'s Cleveland Barons and briefly head coach of the Minnesota North Stars, and he scouted for the Rangers and the Edmonton Oilers.
King John agreed to place his seal on the document in June 1215 at Runnymede near Windsor, west of London, as a means of ending an uprising by rebel barons.
King John agreed to place his seal on the document in June 1215 at Runnymede near Windsor, west of London, as a means of ending an uprising by rebel barons.
The danger of concentrated corporate power was as true in the 1880s, when railroad and financial barons were first consolidating power, as it was in the 1980s and is today.
He went to camp with team in 1977 when they moved to Cleveland and became the Barons, but didn't make the roster, and ended up joining a senior league team.
But the threat these tech robber barons pose to our industry requires us to speak out, not just to stem the flow of layoffs but also for the communities we serve.
The moves recall the era of newspaper barons like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in the 1890s — a period of "yellow journalism" that is not noted for its quality reporting.
That strategy was honed by the robber barons of the first Gilded Age in the 19th century, who seemed to give away just enough to temper mainstream pushback on their exploitation.
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Or look a little further ahead and perhaps it is 2029 and the Berlin Barons are taking on the Dallas Cowboys in Arizona for supremacy in the NFL's annual championship game.
The robber barons of America's Gilded Age in the late 19th century gave way to the Progressive Era at the turn of the 20th century, when tough antitrust laws were passed.
The bulk of the Sacklers' fortune has been accumulated only in recent decades, yet the source of their wealth is to most people as obscure as that of the robber barons.
Industry barons have always used money to rehabilitate tarnished reputations, but the success that Trump and West Virginia Governor Jim Justice had in running outsider-business campaigns is Blankenship's true model.
No mangled FAQs or misspoken summaries will change this basic premise — because the alternative, continuing to let fossil fuel barons feather their nests with wealth stolen from our children — is unacceptable.
He will use his first major speech of the election campaign to tackle what he calls "a corrupt system" and take on "the vested interests" of big business and media barons.
Cross-filing was one of a series of measures adopted during the Progressive Era to curb the power of the railroad barons and thwart any East Coast-style political machines. Gov.
His movement harks back to the progressive era a century ago, when a similar grassroots movement successfully took on the power of the industrial robber barons of the late 19th century.
So our desperate great- and great-great grandparents came in droves from Italy, spurred on by industrial barons in need of cheap labor who welcomed them with open arms to America.
And the Populist revolts of the late 19th century adapted this story to modern capitalism, with farmers and laborers rebelling against robber barons, bankers, time-management experts and college-educated professionals.
It seeks instead to continue cleansing a political establishment still tied at many points to economic barons who divert public funding from desperately needed investments in health care, education and infrastructure.
But the wealth created in the capitalist economy didn't just enrich the coal barons, it also enabled the development of new technologies, medicines and professions that made many lives materially better.
They even claim to offer an alternative to the winner-take-all model of capitalism than has driven wealth inequality to heights not seen since the age of the robber barons.
The so-called Bourbons—oligarchic Democrats who represented tax-averse industrial barons, known as "Big Mules", and the planters—slung as much mud at Kolb as the pre-internet age could muster.
Imran Khan, a leader of the opposition, blames feudalism for the country's "grossly unfair social system", but is now wooing the feudal barons in his bid for power in next year's election.
The robber barons built their factories and railways without regard to the quality of the air or workers' safety: in just one year, 1893, 1,567 railway workers were killed and 18,877 injured.
It can trace its roots back more than a century, to the days when Gilded Age railroad barons fulminated against the leftist European immigrants who, they believed, were infecting America with communism.
Barons, cowboys, outlaws and gunslingers all vying for their voice by rushing for content gold in this unbridled sphere of influence — but they are stumbling in the thicket of the emigrant trails.
From the 19th century until the 1970s, Republican nominees were chosen after back-room deals between party barons and political machines, occasionally triggering fist-fights and furniture-smashing on the convention floor.
They show how money was moved around and hidden by at least 33 people and companies blacklisted by the United States for allegedly doing business with rogue states, terrorists or drug barons.
In Spain, which holds an election on June 26th, Podemos, a surging leftist party, urges voters to wrench control from la casta, the supposedly kleptocratic elite of bankers, politicians and media barons.
Then there are the emerging corporate barons, like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose company is fast approaching a trillion-dollar valuation even as it pays many of its workers poverty-level wages.
In the first's infamous shareware episode-ending level "Phobos Anomaly," which is briefly revisited in A.L.T., a climactic confrontation outside unleashes a couple of Barons Of Hell on you from their slumber.
Mr. Kretinsky, 2000, has had a rapid rise under the tutelage of two of the most successful privatization barons in the post-communist Czech Republic and Slovakia, Patrik Tkac and Petr Kellner.
We were joined by Jean-Guillaume Prats, the chief executive of Domaines Barons de Rothschild, and Eric Kohler, the technical director, who discussed the vintage conditions and the production of each wine.
The Amazon frontier has become a South American Wild West where land barons feud over property, extort judges and politicians with threats of violence, and abuse workers in conditions akin to slavery.
When Woodrow Wilson nationalized rail companies during World War I, the robber barons who ran them were—much to the surprise of the White House—more than happy to accept the buyout.
The railroad barons, operating in a largely unregulated market, would underbid each other on price in a deleterious downward spiral that caused wages to be slashed and critical maintenance to be forgone.
Along with the grumbling about so-called soybean barons from neighboring Mato Grosso State building villas here, some in Alter also insisted that they could forge a balance between tourism and sustainability.
The negative side of this portrayal may be more prominent in times of high inequality (think of the robber barons of the Gilded Age or the Gordon Gekko figures of the 1980s).
From Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil barons to newly-minted Chinese entrepreneurs, the wealthy have flocked to London over the past two decades, snapping up everything from opulent homes to soccer clubs.
Now that may help the steel barons and it may help the steel unions, but when that begins to resonate throughout the economy and the consumer, does that help everyone on assembly lines?
The ultimate beneficiaries of pension schemes and investment funds should be able to vote in company elections; this power ought not to be outsourced to a few barons in the asset-management industry.
In his "Square Deal", and later Progressive reforms, the trustbusting TR sought to take on the robber barons, regulate the railroads and smooth the rough edges of capitalism by bringing about social reform.
Today, when hedge fund managers and start up bros — the robber barons of this millennium — shop mostly at Art Basel and Restoration Hardware, it is startling to contemplate the theatrics of Kips Bay.
Mr. Zuckerman took control in 1993, but times were hard, even then, well before digital media threatened the business model that had produced newspaper barons, star columnists and city reporters with steady paychecks.
"You can't stop the development in the Bight," said Mr. Stehr, one of the town's best-known tuna barons, in his Port Lincoln office, surrounded by photographs of himself with former prime ministers.
Robber barons were making money hand over fist, and spending it on luxurious mansions along Fifth Avenue, while downtown, dozens of people crammed into each of the tenement buildings that lined the Bowery.
Student Challenge: Have students look for evidence in The Times for whether today's Silicon Valley tycoons are robber barons reinvented, and whether the mammoth companies they control behave like monopolies from another era.
In the two previous national ballots, Netanyahu's opponents focused on the three corruption investigations against him that included allegations he dispensed favors to media barons in a push for more favorable media coverage.
If you were already inclined to think that the Japanese seafood game, like so many other things in Manhattan, is rigged in favor of the robber barons, these restaurants won't change your mind.
In the two previous national elections, Netanyahu's opponents focused on the three corruption investigations against him that included allegations he dispensed favors to media barons in a push for more favorable media coverage.
But as the former Chicago Defender editor and reporter Ethan Michaeli shows in his extraordinary history, "The Defender," the Negro press barons attacked military segregation with a zeal that set Roosevelt's teeth on edge.
He would say nothing of the drug barons who hired him, but he happily recounted his murders, remembering the number and caliber of each bullet he fired, the angle and repose of each victim.
"The space barons are shrewdly — one might say cynically — tapping into our respect for astronauts and our idealism about what space represents," New Yorker writer Ceridwen Dovey wrote in a piece published last year.
Notably, he also was working to resolve claims by campesinos (peasant farmers) that their land holdings in areas like the Aguán Valley that had been illegally seized by powerful land barons and plantation owners.
The older functions of Super Tuesday — as a mechanism for the party to ensure the nomination of the candidate the party barons preferred -- have become weaker because of how the campaign process has changed.
They failed us when they nominated one of the biggest-polluting coal barons in West Virginia: Governor Jim Justice, who mines three miles from my house and puts silica dust in my children's lungs.
The context is a colonial America ruled, or more often misruled, by crown-appointed governors and swayed by mighty factions — the land barons who farm vast estates versus the merchant princes who control trade.
Amazon could shake off that kind of criticism a few years ago, but now it's grist for legislators like Sanders who are casting billionaires like Bezos as the robber barons of the 21st century.
Similarly, closing a loophole related to so-called carried interest that allows buyout barons to pay relatively low rates of tax on some of their rewards is both logical and worthy of bipartisan support.
So as you hunt down Uldren's barons, you're facing a real variety pack of things to do (and shoot), like a boss that rides around on a tricked out speeder bike or a teleporting sniper.
A kind of social Darwinism permeates the jockeys' world, not unlike that of the robber barons who made the upstate New York spa town of Saratoga Springs the place to be during the summer meet.
It may well be that this country is in for very rough sledding as was the case in the latter part of the 19th-century when workers took on the robber barons and demanded change.
Not coincidentally, these are industries where government-approved mergers have led to abuses of market power not seen since the lumber barons, and consumers get treated to high prices, low innovation and lousy customer service.
When Americans think about the Spanish-American War, if we think about it at all, we imagine a short, unnecessary and largely irrelevant conflict, hatched by a cabal of hawkish imperialists and yellow-press barons.
In the way that the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and the Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison have bought up large chunks of Hawaii, the barons of the Gilded Age took control of Georgia's barrier islands.
Such mainland companies with deep pockets are challenging the local land barons, who came to dominate Hong Kong's economy as the colonial British trading houses relinquished their positions in the run-up to the handover.
"It will probably go into the pockets of decarbonisation 'barons': clever local elites who will funnel transition money to their business," Gabor predicted, who are eager to use public money to "de-risk" private investment.
Sons and daughters of illiterate plantation workers became doctors and teachers and contributed to large gains in human development, while corrupt officials and robber barons who had drained the old Cuba were forced to leave.
Photograph by Aaron Vincent Elkaim for The New Yorker The caucheros , as the rubber barons were called, were daring, ruthless men— the equivalent, in a sense, of modern-day narco-traffickers like El Chapo Guzmán.
Members of Congress who control the committees that appropriate State's funds and oversee its operations are like feudal barons; many of them would like your job and think they can do it better than you can.
At the time, a Wall Street Journal report referred to the project as being similar to a "company town," the name for small communities built by robber barons of the 20th century that housed factory workers.
High fees also reflect anti-competitive behaviour and a growing thicket of Western money-laundering rules which are meant to police al-Qaeda barons, but which have ended up being a nightmare for expatriate Filipina maids.
His supporters imagined Mr Kasich landing the nomination in a third, or a fifth round of voting at the convention—a scenario harking back to the days when party barons chose candidates in smoke-filled rooms.
Kenya was slow to initiate programs for injecting drug users, but recognized the need for specialized services after some 100 addicts died from withdrawal during a 2011 heroin shortage, triggered by a crackdown on drug barons.

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