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- <text id=89TT2485>
- <title>
- Sep. 25, 1989: Business Notes:Tycoons
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- TYCOONS
- Order to Go: One Big Pie
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Ever since 1960, when Tom Monaghan opened his first pizza
- outlet in Ypsilanti, Mich., the eccentric tycoon has been
- expanding his empire like a spinning wheel of pizza dough. But
- now that his Domino's chain has 5,100 stores and sales of $2.3
- billion, Monaghan is suddenly ready to move on. In a letter to
- employees and franchise owners, the pizza king disclosed that
- he is looking for ways to sell Domino's.
- </p>
- <p> Monaghan has been besieged by recent controversies ranging
- from his donations to antiabortion groups to the allegedly
- reckless driving of his pizza-delivery drivers. But he says that
- his plan to "minimize my involvement" springs from his desire
- to spend more time on his charitable avocations. One holding
- that is not for sale: the Detroit Tigers baseball team, which
- the fan bought six years ago.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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