Word: icing
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Business in Asia is played very much like ice hockey. The big guys - state-backed behemoths, massive conglomerates and supertycoons - almost always pin smaller enterprises against the glass to score the plum deal. So it seemed for Lawrence Ho, CEO of NASDAQ-listed casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment. Less than a year ago, the giants of the gaming industry - Vegas legends Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands - had shoved the little-known Ho to the edge of Asia's casino market. But his rivals should have taken note of how Ho, a recreational hockey player, likes...
...mail or send the money via PayPal. "If you're worried I am one of those internet rip-off artists, call NYU's admissions office at 212.998.4500," his e-mail continues, "and ask for someone in international admissions - they handled my admissions as I was recruited to play ice hockey for Russia and spent last year there...
Protest artists had carved large ice sculptures on the capital grounds in St. Paul to read "democracy," to herald their cause and to heckle the Republican National Convention. By the time the demonstrations against the GOP were underway, however, the letters had melted into partisan illegibility, reading "democrat" or "democratic." Protesters later reached the triangular zone across the street from the Xcel Energy Center, where barbed-wire fences and riot police separated the boisterous Republican-bashing crowd from the few delegates inside...
...lying areas were given a mandatory evacuation, Keller says several hundred chose to stay behind despite a cut-off time to change their minds. On Monday night, as winds continue to gust to 50 mph, three search teams are trying to reach residents in need of rescue. Food and ice distribution points are expected to be established on Tuesday. Still, the words on everyone's lips are: "It wasn't another Katrina...
...Back inside: "How many of you've seen the Discovery Channel Deadliest Catch? Ice Road Truckers?" Cheer. "We're getting famous up here!" Huge cheer...