Word: formula
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...Wynn's Mirage Resorts Inc.) or because he is the first to think of inserting family fun into betting parlors (Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. did in the mid-'70s, with acrobats and clowns performing above the casino floor). But he is the first to apply to gambling the Disney formula for class-crossing, universal family leisure: cleanliness, measured frivolity and a sense of architectural detail. In the right environment, he argues, everybody and nobody is a gambler. "This place is filled with people like me and you -- none of whom think of themselves as gamblers," he says from his casino...
Mostly from Congress, via an emergency appropriation, White House officials predict. But selling the idea of new foreign aid is the political equivalent of root canal. Luckily, however, an alternative exists, a reallocation of the $15 billion the U.S. sends abroad each year -- funds still distributed according to a formula established when the old world order flourished...
Bailouts of small economies in trouble typically call for painful measures unpopular with those receiving the help. Overhauling a foundering former superpower, a job almost never before attempted, seems to involve much the same formula -- just on a vaster scale. So in working out a package of aid to Russia that could total more than $28 billion, the seven leading industrialized nations -- the Group of Seven -- attached conditions that will make much of the plan unpalatable to Moscow. Nevertheless, said Deputy Prime Minister Boris Fyodorov, Russia welcomes the effort as a "practical, visible approach...
Baitz's awareness of the clash between cash and conscience is hardly novel; ! and his main target, infant formula, has been pilloried for more than a decade. What makes Three Hotels so memorable, in an impeccable production, is Baitz's ability to render people specific and real. He savors the businessman's skill at infighting and pride in the art of firing failed subordinates even as the character edges toward a moral quandary. He evokes the wife's protectiveness and pragmatic respect toward her husband's labor even as she lashes out to end it. The play implies in each...
...grief: the death of their 16-year-old son in Brazil, just before they were to return home, because he made the fatal error of wearing a shiny new watch to the beach. The parents realize that much of their high-minded shame about unknown babies malnourished by infant formula is really self-absorbed rage at the company for somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits, on the traditional Day of the Dead, hoping his wife...