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...this type of planning is the exception to the rule. While politicians rarely forget voters, projects in peripheral parts of the state often seem designed to appease the people. Rarely do they show any vision or genuine commitment. For Governor William F. Weld '66 the proposed casino in New Bedford is typical...
...debt by splitting it into two companies. In 1989, as CFO of Holiday Corp., he helped launch a subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp. (Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites), in the process selling off Holiday Inns to Bass PLC for an outrageous amount of money. He also rescued casino-hotel mogul Donald Trump from ruin. Trump was personally on the hook for $650 million before Bollenbach sprang him, an act that some of the Donald's rivals found unforgivable...
...need for acceptance may have led him into waters too deep for his skills. (Fellow advance men used to call him Craig Flintstone.) A former restaurant bouncer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Livingstone apparently inflated his work history. He said he was the public-relations man for an Atlantic City casino, but that job requires a license, which, according to the Casino Control Commission, he never obtained. Working as a gofer and advance man for Democratic campaigns in the 1980s--it was on the 1984 Hart campaign that he met ex-cop Marceca--he became known as a teller of tall tales...
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...
...like talk shows and other entertainment programs; those minute-long "Movie News" segments, frequently run during local newscasts, may look like clips from Entertainment Tonight, but they are actually commercials for Disney films. In 1994 NBC aired a prime-time special on the newly opened Treasure Island resort and casino in Las Vegas that was produced by Stephen Wynn, who owns the place. ABC, CBS and NBC have all run prime-time specials on the making of such big Hollywood films as The Lion King and Wyatt Earp--specials produced by the studios releasing the films...