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<text id=91TT0229>
<title>
Feb. 04, 1991: Business Notes:Corporate Leaders
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 04, 1991 Stalking Saddam
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 60
Business Notes
CORPORATE LEADERS
Hold the Flamboyance
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<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.
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</body></article>
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