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...gathered to forage nearby. Groups of two or three deer are common on Fire Island but a whole herd is unusual to see--even for the Hesters, who have lived there for 30 years. Taking their corn on the cob with them, the Hesters strolled up the the boardwalk leading over the sand dunes in front of their property to see if the deer were still within view. They were, grazing in the shadows as the sun began sinking into Long Island's Great South Bay behind them. The Atlantic, meanwhile, was turning violet in the gathering dusk, the lights...
Among the benefits of bulking up, the deal will land Hilton on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Bally owns two huge gaming palaces. Hilton has five casino hotels in Nevada but had been shut out of the lucrative Atlantic City market. The combined companies will rake in the chips at 15 casinos from Las Vegas to Istanbul, Turkey, and plan to open five more by the end of the decade. But Hilton, which last year earned half of its $353 million in operating income from gambling, is hardly turning its back on the lodging business. "We will...
...food stalls and restaurants. Within four years of its opening in 1976, Faneuil Hall was drawing 15 million visitors annually. It inspired Rouse to try a similar restoration job at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Harborplace, which opened in 1980, had its detractors (a critic called it "Atlantic City's boardwalk with a touch of Disneyland"), but it helped revitalize Baltimore's downtown and secured Rouse's place as the most influential urban developer of his time...
...holds his head in his hands for half an hour or so, a fan can wander off for such ballpark staples as hot dogs and popcorn or have a trick picture taken that shows himself or herself sitting across the table from Kasparov. The show is part chessboard, part boardwalk...
Recently, she tried to disguise herself to go walking along the Atlantic City boardwalk, she said. Even so, people recognized her and came up to her to wish her good luck...