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Some human beings are gifted with perfect pitch, others with total recall. Ben Skora can hand-build just about anything, without benefit of blueprint. A high school dropout, one-time recording company owner, Skora has for the past 30 years helped pay the rent by treating drug, drinking and other behavioral problem cases with hypnosis. But he admits to a life-long addiction of his own: gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years...
...European Airbus, a mainly Franco-German project that is aimed ambitiously at loosening the U.S. hold on the world's commercial aircraft market. To enhance the Airbus' chances, the French and Germans have tried to persuade the British to join in its development, with a standing offer to build the wings and other key parts...
Such problems have not been encountered by Golden Nugget Inc., of Las Vegas, which proposes building a new $75 million high-rise casino-hotel on the site of an old stucco motel. Golden Nugget's hard-driving president, Stephen Wynn, last month slipped into the motel wearing sandals and a T shirt. When the owner quoted an $8.5 million selling price, Wynn replied: "I'll give you a million now and the rest in 24 hours." Wynn told reporters that the owner was so surprised "he almost dropped dead." Also scrambling to open casinos are Playboy Enterprises, which...
Although the department had sufficient funds to build Blodgett Pool and the ITT, the $13 million received from the fund-raising drive will not supply an endowment to cover the $300,000-a-year operating costs of the two buildings, he added. $17 million was originally slated for phase...
Boeing is looking for partners to share the work. In the late '60s and early '70s, the company had to reduce its payroll drastically due to the cutbacks of its aerospace programs. Though the company has added some 8,000 workers to help build the new superjets, it wants to avoid another boom-bust cycle. Boeing's first choice for a partner would be British Aircraft Corp., which would give the new planes a European flavor and make them easier to market within the European Community. So far, the British have not decided whether to join Boeing...