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- <text id=90TT2454>
- <title>
- Sep. 17, 1990: Business Notes:Investments
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 17, 1990 The Rotting Of The Big Apple
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 66
- Business Notes
- INVESTMENTS
- Making a Hole in One
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- <body>
- <p> In golf-mad Japan, the biggest swinger of all may be
- industrialist Minoru Isutani, whose Cosmo World Corp. controls
- more than 10 Japanese courses and is rapidly developing sites
- in the U.S. and Europe. Last week Isutani scored the investment
- equivalent of a hole in one when he agreed to pay an estimated
- $900 million for the Pebble Beach Co., which operates four golf
- courses on California's Monterey Peninsula that rank among the
- world's most scenic. The deal makes Pebble Beach the jewel of
- Isutani's international golf empire, which includes courses
- under development in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Hawaii and a
- new golf resort in Salzburg, Austria.
- </p>
- <p> Even as Isutani expands his holdings abroad, he has become
- entangled in controversy at home. In one widely reported
- conflict, angry golfers have accused him of grossly overselling
- memberships in his Japanese courses and thereby making weekend
- reservations frustratingly hard to get.
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- </body>
- </article>
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