Word: lago
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...miscellany of bits and pieces like Manhattan's Plaza Hotel ($400 million), "one of the great diamonds of the world." And the 76-acre plot along the Hudson that may or may not become Trump City. And Mar-a-Lago, the $7 million, 118-room Palm Beach, Fla., hideaway originally built by Marjorie Merriweather Post, with its elaborate Moorish arches, its private golf course and its 400 ft. of beach. (Mrs. Post originally bequeathed the place to the U.S. Government for visiting chiefs of state, but it was rejected as too expensive.) And the 47-room weekend cottage in Greenwich...
...what the strategic arms reduction talks were missing. For his part, Gorbachev gets a view of capitalism run amuck: Trump owns one of the city's biggest apartments (a $10 million, 20,000-sq.-ft. triplex), a palatial country house (Marjorie Merriweather Post's 118-room villa, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.), a floating island for a yacht (once owned by Adnan Khashoggi), a giant helicopter (a 44-seat double rotor, under construction), the world's biggest gambling casino (the 120,000-sq.-ft. Taj Mahal in Atlantic City), and the biggest ego (see his memoir, Trump...
Many times, the manager has to serve as statistician. Lorraine Lago '90, the manager of the women's lacrosse team, had never seen a lacrosse game in her life. "It was the first time I went away with them. We were at Cornell, and that night the coach and I spent three hours going over videos," Lago says...
...disaster brought the country's reeling economy to its knees. Mud slides destroyed 25 miles of Ecuador's vital oil pipeline, which begins at Lago Agrio and travels 340 miles through the Andes to the Pacific port of Balao. The rupture forced the suspension of oil exports, which in recent years have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without...
...region around the town of Lago Agrio, teams of rescue workers ferried in emergency aid by helicopter. An urgent plea for outside help yielded planeloads of food, medicine and tents, including 50 tons of supplies from the U.S. By week's end officials were expressing serious concern about longer-term environmental damage. The mud slides and oil spills, said Health Minister Jorge Bracho, may have "modified the whole region of the Ecuadorian Amazon...