Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liquor became legal, he has booked conventions through 1989, nearly all of them thirsty gatherings that never convene in a dry county and thus have never met here. "Without the lounge we would show a small profit," said Gore, "but we make big money now." Ramada Inns and the Hilton chain are talking with Colbert boosters about building in the county, and the boosters themselves are talking about a civic center...
...voting patterns so far show that a majority of Southern Presbyterians basically agree with the Rev. John M. Miller of Hilton Head Island, S.C., who argues that opposition to merger now is "a feudal expression of longing for a past that can never be." Adds Richards, 80, a patriarch of the Southern denomination: "The church is under attack in so many quarters that we can't be divided. We've got to sacrifice the things that aren't essential in order to get together." -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by B.J. Phillips/Atlanta
...Hastings. Conceded Prosecutor Robert Richter in his opening argument to the jury: "We will not put a big number four up in front of you. We'll put two plus two." The Government contended that Hastings had gone to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel for dinner on Sept. 16, 1981, as Borders had said he would, to signal his involvement in the scheme. Prosecutors played a tape of a phone call Hastings made to Borders 19 days later. Using what the Government claimed were code words, Hastings supposedly promised that he would rule the next day that...
...assessments of the economy too. Reagan is well aware that the recession has reinforced a widespread impression that he is indifferent to the sufferings of the poor and unemployed; some 300 demonstrators drove home the point last week by assembling in the bitter cold outside Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel and chanting, "We want jobs!" At the Percy dinner inside, the President told his partisan audience: "In the long run, economic growth will put our unemployed back to work, revive idle factories and open new doors of opportunity. But in the short run, our people continue to hurt...
...Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Hilton Hotels Corp. has also decided to open up in the city and earlier this autumn announced plans to construct its own $250 million hotel-and-casino complex. Resorts International is planning additional construction featuring a second casino and a sports arena. Both the Golden Nugget and Caesars are preparing additional...