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* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Dick figures Howard will wait till he has a board meeting and makes an announcement to his shareholders, and he won't even know until afterwards how much he's been screwed. That is exactly what Howard does; just not the way Dick thought it would turn out.]].

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* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Dick figures Howard will wait till he has a board meeting and makes an announcement to his shareholders, and he won't even know until afterwards how much he's been screwed. That is exactly what Howard does; just not the way Dick thought it would turn out.]].]].
* MagnificentBastard: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Howard Tully]] is the elegant, posh CEO of cosmetics company Burkett & Randle, who sets about ruining his rival Dick Garsik. Intentionally baiting a trap to take in two hapless spies, Ray Koval and Claire Stenwick, Howard feeds them false information about a miracle cure for baldness he's working on in order to get them interested in stealing it and giving it to Dick. In reality, [[MockGuffin the cure is fake]]. Howard plays them by faking methods to keep them interested [[KansasCityShuffle sets up them to steal it without them being aware he meant for them to do that]]. The baldness cure is then given to Dick who proudly announces his "discovery". This leads to his financial ruin and allows Howard to triumph. Courteous, elegant and even enough of a good sport to thank the spies he fooled with some champagne he bought, Howard shows the power of duplicity.
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* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Dick figures Howard will wait till he has a board meeting and makes an announcement to his shareholders, and he won't even know until afterwards how much he's been screwed. That is exactly what Howard does; just not the way Dick thought it would turn out.]].

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