Word: lanni
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...penchant for gambling is dovetailing with the world's fastest-growing economy. Millionaires are being minted every day in China, and the World Trade Organization predicts the country's booming middle class will boast half a billion people by 2014. "And frankly," says MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, "there's not much to do with that money there to enjoy yourself." Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 23-sq-km territory, whose small contingent of casinos generated $3.6 billion in gaming revenue - three-fourths...
...poor some more? While Sullivan's proposal sounds admirable because it aims to discourage Americans from buying gas-guzzling SUVs and would help pay for the war, it is nothing more than another effort to shift the tax burden to the poor and middle class. RALPH LANNI Princeton...