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...their calmer moments, those involved insist that no such grim scenario will ever come to pass, that the unthinkable will not be allowed to happen, that the debt bomb cannot explode. But it is a fact that for the past 21 months, particularly through a nerve-racking autumn and winter, the bomb's fuse has been sputtering, forcing almost overnight major changes in international lending. Ever since March 1981, when Poland, with a debt of $27 billion, declared that it simply did not have the $2.5 billion due its creditors that year, the danger signals have been flying. Last...
...said, there was "a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that has long been ringing, of finding a place at a table that has long been left vacant." After the ceremony, Muggeridge stepped out into the brisk English autumn air, and for once seemed content with all he surveyed. "It's a particularly joyful sort of day," said he. "It's rather Like when you fall in love with a woman and ask her to marry you. You know there are no more questions to be asked...
...quality. More precisely, the near-total absence of set accomplishes this purpose. A mirrored floor and a red velvet curtain constitute the sole permanent scenery, and both seem oddly out of place. Chairs and a packing crate and blankets on the floor (to suggest beds) appear briefly, as do autumn leaves whose color is much too bright for the mood of the last...
...floor space of Las Vegas, gambling during the summer high season produced $446.5 million in revenues; this was 24% more than in the previous summer and only slightly less than the $455 million raked in by Vegas casinos during that period. Moreover, the gap has continued to narrow this autumn. Says Steven Norton, executive vice president for Resorts International, which operates the oldest, largest and most successful casino in the city: "By 1984, gambling revenues in New Jersey will surpass those in Las Vegas." During October, he notes, Atlantic City's revenues jumped a startling 39% over those...
...years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Hilton Hotels Corp. has also decided to open up in the city and earlier this autumn announced plans to construct its own $250 million hotel-and-casino complex. Resorts International is planning additional construction featuring a second casino and a sports arena. Both the Golden Nugget and Caesars are preparing additional casino sites of their own. It seems that Atlantic City's casino operators...