Word: chicago
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...Chinese gambling enclave of Macau, Shangri-La was scheduled to open two hotels along the city's nascent Cotai Strip this year, but casino operator Las Vegas Sands failed to raise the necessary funds and the entire project is on hold. In the U.S., a 223-room hotel in Chicago, due to open in 2011 in Waterview Tower, is also stalled due to the developer's financing difficulties...
...imagine it would spark so much controversy in India? Tomi Obaro, CHICAGO...
...nuclear physicist who studied at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi, Cover worked as a contract scientist on NASA's Apollo moon program. It was during this period in the 1960s--an era of civil unrest, airplane hijackings and urban violence--that he began to ponder the need for a nonlethal weapon...
...years back, two finance professors at the University of Chicago set out to discover who was behind the spectacular rise in the very top incomes in the U.S. Steven Kaplan and Joshua Rauh quickly concluded that for all the outrage about the pay of corporate chief executives and their lieutenants, it didn't account for more than a sliver of the gains. And highly paid athletes and entertainers were too small in number to have much impact...
...since then, Burris has amended his testimony in a sworn affidavit with the House's impeachment panel chair, outlining multiple conversations he had in fact had with Blagojevich's brother and other of the governor's lieutenants, which included requests for him to raise cash. The Chicago Sun-Times first disclosed the inconsistencies in a weekend report. The paper then suggested Monday that Burris only came clean after being contacted about the matter by federal investigators, something Burris denied Monday as "absolutely, positively not true." (See the Top 10 Scandals...