Word: gatherings
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...rignon is set to flow as international revelers from Robert De Niro and Jean Paul Gaultier to Bollywood star Bipasha Basu gather to celebrate the grand opening of the Atlantis, a $1.5 billion, 1,500-room hotel resort that is over-the-top even by Dubai's standards. A branch of Kerzner's landmark resort in the Bahamas, the Atlantis features opulent rooms from $450 to $35,000 a night; restaurants by star chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang; a giant aquarium containing 65,000 marine animals; and the Middle East's biggest theme park with...
...last year managed to convince a lot of colleges to participate in its interactive database, which uses several sets of bar graphs to show how a particular school stacks up against a group of peer institutions. But the database doesn't provide numerical rankings. Which means consumers have to gather a lot of data and do their own calculations to compare one school to another, which is precisely the kind of thoughtful research colleges wants prospective students to be doing. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...
...Canada withstood the subprime tornado better than other countries, and should the Canadian banking system be a model for G-7 and G-20 leaders when they gather in Washington on Nov. 15? Consider that the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, an influential think tank whose annual conference attracts the likes of Bill Gates and Tony Blair, earlier this month ranked Canada's banking system as the soundest in the world. The U.S. came in at No. 40, and Germany and Britain ranked 39 and 44, respectively. (Switzerland was No. 16, just ahead of Namibia.) "For Canadian banks, having higher...
...clearly understands that you can't just sit around talking about all the good things you want to do when you get to the White House and then expect them to happen all by themselves. Which means you can't hire a staff that's going to gather at work every day, hold hands and sing "Kumbaya...
...afternoon storm clouds gather, an almost daily occurrence in wet and steamy Singapore, work goes on as usual at the Marina Bay site of Las Vegas Sands' $4 billion resort and casino project. The earthmovers scoop and dump the soft soil, and workers fan out across the city-state's most coveted piece of land, which girdles the central business district and offers a sweeping view over the emerald waters of the Malacca Straits...