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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civic responsibilities is that only five out of twelve posted a profit last year. Overall, the casinos earned just $14.7 million after expenses in 1988, a meager return on the $2.73 billion that gamblers lost in the slot machines and at the tables, according to Marvin Roffman, a casino analyst with Philadelphia's Janney Montgomery Scott. The reason is the debt the casinos have taken on in the past three years, much of it through junk bonds, either to fight off takeovers or engineer them. Atlantic City's casinos have incurred more than $2 billion in debt, $6 for every...
...director and funeral-hopping Vice President, he amassed a detailed personal knowledge of world leaders. Like Nixon, Bush has a habit of adding intimate footnotes when intelligence briefers provide him with thumbnail biographies of figures making news overseas. "That guy isn't like that at all," he told an analyst who was profiling a foreign politician. "He goes back a long way with some of these cats," a senior official recounted. Two weeks ago, in a remarkable display of Rolodex diplomacy, Bush telephoned Kings Hussein of Jordan, Hassan of Morocco, Fahd of Saudi Arabia; Prime Ministers Turgut Ozal of Turkey...
...that the Dow has made a nearly 1,000-point recovery in just under two years, Wall Streeters are asking, Can it happen again? Is this boom any different from the last one? "Stock prices have been climbing a wall of worry," says Robert Farrell, the chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, who sees "a significant correction on the horizon...
...market's volume. The average daily number of shares traded on the N.Y.S.E. was about 200 million last week, in contrast to a daily average of less than 170 million so far this year. "In August, when many traders are away, this is very unusual," notes Shearson technical analyst Philip Roth...
...National Abortion Rights Action League each signed up 50,000 new members. NARAL added $1 million to its coffers in July alone. NOW President Molly Yard vows to make every politician confront the question "Are you for the right of a woman to control her reproductive life?" Says political analyst William Schneider: "In abortion the women's movement has an issue that could enable them to break into the mainstream...