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...worlds of high risk and heavy metal are coming together. Peter Morton, trend-sensitive co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, plans to open a Hard Rock hotel-casino in Las Vegas by late 1992. The 326-room property would be the resort's first casino to target patrons more versed in Ben E. King than Benny Goodman. Morton's chain of 11 Hard Rock restaurants, which serve down- home food and vintage rock, has grown to annual revenues of nearly $100 million. Morton's latest smash hit: a Hard Rock restaurant in Las Vegas, an instant landmark thanks...
...example: preserving the atmosphere -- stopping ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect -- is an environmental necessity. In April scientists reported that ozone damage is far worse than previously thought. Ozone depletion not only causes skin cancer and eye cataracts, it also destroys plankton, the beginning of the food chain atop which we humans...
...that AT&T refrain from using such terms as turtle power and cowabunga in a 900-number telephone service for kids. In a far- reaching copyright case, book publishers scored an important victory in March when a federal court in New York City fined the Kinko's Graphics national chain of copying stores $510,000 for illegally photocopying and selling excerpts of books to college students...
...company's stunning success has bulldozed others out of an industry in which more than 350 major firms are trying to compete. Channel Home Centers, a New Jersey-based chain that has been saddled with a $268 million load of debt since it went private in 1986, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last January and plans to sell or close 34 of its 86 stores. Hechinger Co., a major Maryland- based chain of 115 centers, lost $800,000 in last year's fourth quarter before rebounding with a $7.2 million profit in the first quarter this year. That was down from...
...that changed in late October of his first year, when he had an accident which disqualified him from participating in the program. He left a book in an MIT classroom, and he broke his arm after tripping on a driveway chain guard while running across the campus to retrieve the book. He considered suing MIT, but regained the scholarship in the spring...