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- <text id=91TT0229>
- <title>
- Feb. 04, 1991: Business Notes:Corporate Leaders
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 04, 1991 Stalking Saddam
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- CORPORATE LEADERS
- Hold the Flamboyance
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In these troubled times, ostentatiousness is out, austerity
- in. One person heeding that message is Tom Monaghan, the
- centimillionaire founder of the Domino's Pizza chain (1990
- revenues: nearly $2.7 billion). Monaghan, an architecture
- aficionado and leading collector of Frank Lloyd Wright
- artifacts, has decided to abandon his $5 million dream house.
- Even though it was one-third completed, Monaghan halted
- construction of the 22,000-sq.-ft. mansion in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
- which he had intended to be the keystone in a development of
- exceedingly expensive mansions designed by eminent architects.
- The pizza tycoon, who is shifting his attention toward
- charitable works, felt he could no longer justify spending so
- much on a personal whim. Said he: "I began thinking, `My gosh,
- am I building this out of pride, or what?'" Humility has its
- limits: he plans to keep his multimillion-dollar auto
- collection.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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