Word: felix
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...conditioned Nevada desert, the opening of two gargantuan amusement centers dedicated to gambling and show business -- the Mirage and Excalibur hotels -- is leading Las Vegas toward its biggest year ever. In Nashville the country-music business is keeping the local economy afloat amid a tide of regional recession. Felix Rohatyn, the fiscal doctor, says the only hope for New York City, laid low by the collapse of the boom-boom Wall Street economy of the '80s, is to turn it into a tourist attraction keyed to entertainment. But the industry is also undergoing profound change in its essential financial...
...film is determined to be about something less interesting than sexual combustion. Max is a neat freak, Nora a slob, so for a reel they play Oscar and Felix. She has no friends, his are nudgy -- this movie hates middle- class Jews a lot. Then the lovers must break up and make up, and the ho boy! becomes ho hum. White Palace settles into stolid ordinariness, after flirting with being a handsome essay on the grandeur of reciprocal lust...
...city back up to par. Although its annual budget is larger than that of all but two states, New York City is in a financial straitjacket, and the nation's economic downturn, more harshly reflected in the Northeast than elsewhere, offers little hope for future relief. Says financier Felix Rohatyn, who devised the plan that saved New York from bankruptcy 15 years ago: "I just don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, we cannot turn our back on the city now." Facing a $1.8 billion shortfall, the Dinkins administration has been forced to raise taxes...
...visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, he will be consecrating the biggest church on the African continent. But critics of the structure, which cost more than $200 million, charge that the Pope will also be giving his blessing to the monumental extravagance of Ivorian President Felix Houphouet-Boigny. In response to questions about where the funds came from, the President insists that he used his own fortune to finance the basilica...
...Poindexter, Walsh's focus is on officials at other agencies who assisted the illegal contra supply operation or may have misled Congress. A prime target is Donald Gregg, an adviser to Vice President Bush who is now ambassador to South Korea. In 1985 and 1986 Gregg's friend Felix Rodriguez played a central role in running the contra arms flights from El Salvador. Gregg has testified that he knew nothing about Rodriguez's contra involvement until August 1986. However, both Gregg's secretary and Rodriguez have said the Bush staff knew about Rodriguez's role by May 1986, when Gregg...