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Trump, however, may have other motives in mind. When his vast, 1,250-room Taj Mahal hotel and casino is finished in December 1989, he will control one- quarter of the casino hotel rooms in Atlantic City. Last year almost 4 million people visited the city, but only half a million arrived by air. If Trump diverts some weekend shuttle flights to Atlantic City, he could offer package deals to lure gamblers from up and down the Eastern seaboard. "That's just what Atlantic City needs to goose up its growth rate," says Neidl. "It could be a real shot...
...into folk music, then the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival is right up your alley. Featuring political satirist Tom Paxton, the a cappella group the Bobs, and blues singers Taj Mahal and Odetta, the festival takes place from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $20 per day, and children age 8 to 14 get in for $8. Call 203-364-0366 for details...
...Griffin surprised anyone who doubted his dealmaking acumen. Settling a month-long wrangle, Trump agreed to go along with Griffin's offer to buy the company's outstanding stock, including the developer's majority share, for an estimated $300 million. In exchange, Griffin will sell Resorts' nearly completed Taj Mahal hotel-casino, other real estate and its fleet of helicopters to Trump, assets that the developer says are primarily what he wanted. While both sides claimed success, Griffin clearly foiled Trump in his plan to fold the entire Resorts company into his casino empire...
...gambling business, the action in corporate boardrooms is almost as furious as it is at the craps tables. Real Estate Developer Donald Trump last week announced a $101 million acquisition of Resorts International. Resorts owns two Atlantic City, N.J., casinos, including the Taj Mahal, which will rank as the world's largest gambling hall when it is completed next year. When the merger is accomplished, Trump will control some 15% of Atlantic City's assessed real estate...
...team," confides his aunt), has a deeply developed philosophy based on the principles of strict separation of powers and a disdain for far-reaching federal remedies for social problems. He has a peppery prose style and an acid pen: he once called the Freedom of Information Act "the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored." In a caustic critique of affirmative action, he facetiously proposed a system he dubbed "R.J.H.S.--the Restorative Justice Handicapping System," in which individuals would be awarded points based on their ethnic backgrounds to determine how much...