Word: condo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing unusual about taking a building condo to help pay the mortgage. But Donald Trump raised eyebrows last week when he announced plans to convert most of New York City's 84-year-old Plaza Hotel into condominiums to pay off his $300 million loan on the place. He plans to charge an average of $1,600 per sq. ft. for the luxury apartments, or about three times the price of other prime residential buildings in Manhattan -- and most of the apartments won't have kitchens...
Taking the landmark condo could bring the financially humbled developer $750 million, nearly twice what he paid for it three years ago. Trump is characteristically confident about the audacious plan, which he has not yet submitted to the attorney general's office for approval. "I've already been called by so many people looking to buy in," he bragged. "It's going to become a great success." Ex-wife Ivana may feel considerably less bubbly about the proposed conversion. She could lose her job as the hotel's president...
...fact, loomed large in her calculations. According to prosecutors, Smart decided to get rid of Greg rather than divorce him for fear that her husband, a 24-year-old insurance salesman, would keep not only their condo but also their pet. So, argued prosecutor Paul Maggiotto, she "got her hooks so deep into the hormones" of Flynn that he could not resist her influence. Last week the jury agreed, and Judge Douglas Gray sentenced Smart to life in prison without parole for conspiring to commit murder. All three boys pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and face the possibility...
...Adam Condo (Columbia) won by forfeit...
...Christmas season to September 1989 -- he turns 56 and feels even older. His former job of running his wife Janice's inherited Toyota dealership has been given, by Janice, to their son Nelson, whom Rabbit still does not much like. The elder Angstroms winter in a Florida condo and spend the summers back home in southeastern Pennsylvania. Rabbit is restless, watching too much TV and packing in junk food; he now carries well over 230 lbs. on his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. During a rare period of exertion in Florida, he suffers a warning heart attack. In Pennsylvania...