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  Peter Munk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Munk, OC, B.Eng, LL.D (Born: November 8, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian businessman.
Munk was founder, chairman and CEO of Trizec Corporation, the precursor to the real estate multinational TrizecHahn Corporation, where he remains Chairman.
Munk graduated from University of Toronto in electrical engineering in 1952.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Munk   (271 words)

  
 Canadian Mining Hall of Fame - Peter Munk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Peter Munk was born in Hungary November 8th 1927.
Munk’s mining career began in 1983 when he bought a stake in an Alaskan placer mine and half the Renabie mine in Ontario.
Peter Munk’s influence on gold mining was most keenly felt in the financial realm, where he turned the industry on its ear through an innovative hedging program.
www.halloffame.mining.ca /halloffame/english/bios/munk.html   (442 words)

  
 Bill Cara: Peter Munk interview on ROBTV, Fri., May 5, 2006, 10:43 AM
Bill Cara: Peter Munk interview on ROBTV, Fri., May 5, 2006, 10:43 AM Peter Munk interview on ROBTV, Fri., May 5, 2006, 10:43 AM Barrick Gold’s chairman/founder Peter Munk is being interviewed by John O’Connell at this time on ROBTV.
Peter Munk interview on ROBTV, Fri., May 5, 2006, 10:43 AM Barrick Gold’s chairman/founder Peter Munk is being interviewed by John O’Connell at this time on ROBTV.
Seriously, Peter talks about the fact that there has not been a single major gold discovery in the world for over ten years, and says that’s the reason he bought Homestake, Placer Dome Group, and a host of others.
www.billcara.com /archives/2006/05/peter_munk_inte.html   (528 words)

  
 Afrocentricnews
Peter Munk first became notorious in Canada in the late 1960s, as the beneficiary in an insider trading scandal.
Munk later told his biographer that he was nervous--Khashoggi was late and perhaps ``the PandO directors wouldn't wait for us and it would seriously harm the relationship.
Munk is a member of the elite ``1001 Club,'' co-founded by Prince Philip, a worldwide grouping of aristocrats, bankers, and speculators who support a radical anti-industrial, ``pro-environmentalist'' looting strategy, and who provide a lion's share of the funding for Prince Philip's World Wildlife Fund.
www.afrocentricnews.com /html/bush_gang.html   (3655 words)

  
 CJNews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Peter Munk, president and CEO of Barrick Gold, said the international news media have picked up on a research document issued through the Simon Wiesenthal Centre that focused on conditions of internment in Switzerland during the war.
Munk said Switzerland gave refuge to his family in 1944 at a time when Jews throughout Europe were being slaughtered.
Munk said he was recruited to the committee by Thomas Borer, who is heading a task force coordinating Switzerland's investigation into the country's wartime activities.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/98/apr16-98/main.htm   (1111 words)

  
 Resource Investor - Gold & Silver - Barrick’s Peter Munk Passionate About Globalisation’s Benefits
Munk is known as something of a rainmaker, and has built several businesses into billion dollar entities operating in markets world-over.
Peter Munk emigrated from Hungry in 1948 and settled in Canada, earning an engineering degree from University of Toronto in 1952.
Munk believes that it is the responsibility of CE’s “to move capital, people, expertise to those areas where shareholders have the best chance of maximizing returns,” and this is what he did at Barrick.
www.resourceinvestor.com /pebble.asp?relid=10571   (1142 words)

  
 Trinity College Alumni Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Peter Munk was born in Hungary in the troubled period between the two Great Wars, and as a young man experienced at first hand the terribly destructive and dehumanizing effects of fascism — an experience that undoubtedly helped to create a profound belief in the need for making things and doing things “better”.
Intensely loyal to Canada, Peter Munk has retained important elements of his European heritage in his outlook on the world, in a generally wide-angled vision as well as a more specifically focused and shrewd appreciation of the challenges in the outside world Canada can seize just because it is uniquely Canada.
By nature, Peter Munk is a risk taker, a shrewd innovator.
www.trinity.utoronto.ca /Alumni/news/Munk_Citation.htm   (743 words)

  
 Konrad Yakabuski - Journalist | Journaliste, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Peter Munk barely knew the outgoing prime minister, but had nevertheless requested the tand#144;te-^-tand#144;te.
Munk naturally figured the former prime minister would be an excellent addition to Barrick's board, and that of its largest shareholder, Munk's Horsham Corp. “No one on our board knows the quality or quantity of people globally that Brian does,” Munk says now.
Developing the mines promised to be a logistical nightmare, given laws that required miners to descend a mountain 48 kilometres and report to a border crossing before entering the part of the mine located in the neighbouring country.
www.konradyakabuski.com /articles/2004_02.html   (6171 words)

  
 American Politics Journal -- Remember Jeffrey Archer
Munk should think about before he goes ahead with his plan to crush Mr.
Now he himself is on trial -- as are, to a certain extent, England's ridiculous "libel laws", which seem designed not so much to prevent libel as to prevent the public from learning the unsavory truths about powerful figures.
Munk, American readers and journalists are finding out about your intentions towards Mr.
www.americanpolitics.com /20010629BakerMunkArcher.html   (554 words)

  
 Bill Cara: Gold market is being set up for a fall, Thurs., May 4, 2006, 4:40 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Peter Munk never comes on TV unless it is absolutely necessary.
The point is that Munk goes back a long way with Mitsui and I would be suspicious of any news coming from them regarding Barrick.
Having said all this, Barrick Gold stays on the Cara 100; Peter Munk is a terrific person; and I respect everything he’s done with Barrick.
www.billcara.com /archives/2006/05/gold_market_is.html   (1423 words)

  
 Varsity News -- Bush-Barrick connection probed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Munk is the chief executive officer of Barrick Gold, chair of the U of T Foundation and member of the executive committee of The Campaign.
The official announcement of the Munk donation is expected to be made in mid-November.
Joseph Rotman, a Barrick Gold board of director whose business relationship with Peter Munk dates back more than a decade when he sold Munk lucrative Nevada land from which Barrick extracted $10 billion worth in gold, is a U of T governor.
varsity.utoronto.ca:16080 /archives/118/oct14/news/bush.html   (915 words)

  
 Peter Munk Awarded Honorary Degree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Canadian business leader Peter Munk, Elec 5T2, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto during the June 7th Convocation ceremonies.
Prior to joining Barrick and Horsham, Peter was Chair and CEO of Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation, the largest hotel and resort chain in Australia in the 1970s.
Peter is a member of the World Gold Council, The Toronto Hospital Board of Trustees and Chair of the University of Toronto Crown Foundation.
www.ecf.toronto.edu /~alumni/report/953/953-07.html   (145 words)

  
 cancon: columnists: Steve Gowans - It can't happen here
Peter Munk, head of the Canadian mining firm Barrick Gold, praises Pinochet.
Margaret Thatcher, stalwart Pinochet friend and apologist, elevates the former strongman to the pantheon of champions of democracy, calling to mind Phil Ochs' line, "The name for their profits is democracy." Apparently, saving the economy from the reformist depredations of socialists and Marxists is democracy distilled.
Peter Munk's words about economic security coming before human rights, hang in the air.
www.canadiancontent.ca /features/062301gowans.html   (837 words)

  
 www.mineweb.net | events | conferences | 2003 | euromoney gold conference 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In what had every appearance of being a damage limitation exercise, Peter Munk, chairman of Barrick Gold, made an unscheduled return to the Gold Investment Summit here to announce his company had given up hedging — and would do no more for the next ten years.
In what had every appearance of being a damage limitation exercise, Peter Munk, chairman of Barrick Gold, made an unscheduled return to the Gold Investment Summit here to announce his company had given up hedging - and would do no more for the next ten years.
Peter Munk, chairman of Barrick Gold, today made a typically spirited response to critics who suggested the Canadian group's hedging policy had hit its profits when the gold price rose
www.mineweb.net /events/conferences/2003/emgc   (345 words)

  
 ACCO UK - News update
Munk, 42, has spent ten years at Black and Decker, a global marketer and manufacturer of consumer and commercial products.
Munk played a leadership role in the transformation of Black and Decker from a country driven to a pan-European strategic business unit-based business model.
Munk will be based at the ACCO Europe headquarters in Aylesbury, UK and will report to Chandler.
www.acco.co.uk /news_update/detail.asp?id=676   (239 words)

  
 Safe Haven | Preservation of Capital |
Munk's rise in Australia was aided by his lifelong close
Munk later told his biographer that he was nervous--
Khashoggi was brought in to lend his prestige to Munk.
www.safehaven.com /forums-17176.htm   (1276 words)

  
 The Bay Street Bull - Exploring Executive Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation is here with his wife, Melanie, for the rededication of the hospital’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and they are awaiting the arrival of Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
The Munks mingle with several dozen guests and hospital staff, and between sips on a take-out coffee, Peter Munk reflects on why he donated $7.5 million over the past decade to establish the cardiac centre and another $6.4 million for the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.
Janice Stein, director of the Munk Centre, says the businessman’s donation allowed for the refurbishment of three run-down student residences, the construction of a new façade to link the buildings and the creation of the exquisite gardens in front of the complex.
www.thebaystreetbull.com /issue_aug_05_philantrophy.php   (2043 words)

  
 PR Direct
Toronto, ON, June 2 /PR Direct/ - Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex celebrate the rededication of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto General Hospital on Monday, June 6, 2005.
Since it first opened in May 1996, the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre has earned an international reputation for the development and application of leading cardiac and cardiovascular medicine.
Each year, approximately 17,000 patients are treated at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, and 2,000 patients undergo open-heart surgery.
www.prdirect.ca /en/view_release.aspx?TrafficID=2899   (502 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- PETER MUNK -- Mar. 3, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
For one of the world's most successful gold tycoons, Canada's Peter Munk seems to hold no special regard for the yellow metal.
In less than 10 years, the Hungarian- born magnate's Barrick Gold has emerged as the world's third largest gold producer.
Yet, says Munk, he is no gold bug.
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,985981,00.html   (178 words)

  
 www.mineweb.net | radio | classic mining Peter Munk on refocusing Barrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
TORONTO -- Peter Munk is the founding chairman of Barrick Gold Corp [ABX].
He made these comments preceding the company's regular investor conference call for the fourth quarter financial and operating results.
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www.mineweb.net /radio/classic_mining/74232.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Performance of a Vector Velocity Estimator - Munk, Jensen (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Performance of a Vector Velocity Estimator - Munk, Jensen (ResearchIndex)
@misc{ munk98performance, author = "P. Munk and J. Jensen", title = "Performance of a vector velocity estimator", text = "P. Munk and J. Jensen.
4 A new method for estimation of velocity vectors - Jensen, Munk - 1998
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /munk98performance.html   (376 words)

  
 peter jensen - ResearchIndex document query   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Education Morten Knudsen, Jan Helbo, Lars Peter Jensen, Ole Rokkjr, Ole Borch and Jrgen stergaard.
Jrgen Arendt Jensen and Peter Munk 1 Paper presented at the IEEE
Ahlberg, Jolle Coutaz, Christophe Furet, Peter Jensen, Joergen Steensgard-Madsen.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Peter+Jensen   (571 words)

  
 peter pan costume pattern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
For more than a century, fans of JM Barrie's classic story Peter Pan have had a few mysteries to ponder.
Darwin Lord Mayor Peter Adamson announced the winner at a reception at the Civic Centre last night.
This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
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 The Truth Buried Alive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Without hesitation, she teamed up with Friends of the Earth in Holland, raised funds and prepared a press conference—and in August tipped the story to the Globe and Mail, Canada’s national paper.
The Toronto-based newspaper was excited: This was big news about one of the richest men about town, Barrick CEO Peter Munk—not to mention their former prime minister Brian Mulroney, George Bush, repression, greed and blood.
The rule in the news biz is, if it bleeds, it leads.
www.gregpalast.com /detail.cfm?artid=212&row=1   (1679 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mri of the Knee: Books: Peter L. Munk,Clyde A. Helms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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by Peter L. Munk (Editor), Clyde A. Helms (Editor)
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0397516428?v=glance   (657 words)

  
 618: Sterling Peter Mueller-Munk Candelabra P - Phoebus Auction Gallery - Liveauctioneers
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 Amazon.com: Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk: Books: Richard Rohmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Amazon.com: Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk: Books: Richard Rohmer
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