Word: golden
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...mature market you need a good database, basically to steal the customer from the guy next door. To steal him, you need to know a lot about him. What he plays, what he eats and so forth." Mirage Resorts is at work on a system at its Golden Nugget casino to allow hotel clerks instantaneous access to a client's gambling history to determine what sort of room or comps to offer...
...city was one of the most enticing aspects of the project. Again, his cinematic imagery, without being particularly inventive, has a certain visceral power: a walk through a fish-market, capturing a weird, peculiarly nauseating kind of carnality, serves to underscore Milly's physical fragility; the sunlight and warm, golden-tinted colors of Venice give way to driving rain and bleak grayness as Milly's impending discovery of Kate's and Merton's treachery looms near. To complete the contrast, the London sequences framing the Venetian interlude are marked by constant rain and dark, confining clothes...
Russian ragtime is a type of Russian 70s music that, like its American counterpart, evokes nostalgia for a seemingly golden era which never actually existed. 1974 Russia indeed seems golden to Misha, a 20-year-old who dreams of living in New York, Misha starts working on the black market in an attempt to raise money for a black market ticket to New York. His work doesn't seem too taxing, and he spends most of his time cavorting exuberantly with his two best friends...
...newest book, Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, deals with, among other things, the notion of consuming culture: "How non-Americans often view the consumption of Big Macs and french fries as consuming American culture and everything associated with it," as put by Andrea O. Brobeil '98, one of his students and a literature concentrator...
...first game on Thursday night Harvard faced traditional power Minnesota. Despite a roster with many young players, the Golden Gophers netted two early goals, and it appeared that Harvard would pick up right were it left off last year...