Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan has the hospital cutting $30 million annually from its $654 million costs for at least three years. It gets more controversial after that. His real gamble is to push Duke into a range of new businesses--all aimed at creating something like a health-care shopping mall, with everything from its own HMO to primary-care clinics, retirement communities and hospice care, for a good part of the surrounding population...
TOKYO: Good news for Japan's muggers: In a desperate effort to pry open the wallets of its shell-shocked citizenry, the Japanese government is considering sending everyone a check to spend at the mall. The proposed "Happy Mondays" scheme would make more Mondays shopping holidays, and would give everyone a gift voucher worth around $250 in the hopes of reviving Japan's swooning economy from within...
...normally mellow manager had to scream at him in the dugout on live television. His obsession with individual accomplishment led him to commission a giant "30-30" pendant necklace to celebrate his 30 homers and 30 stolen bases. His license plate read ss 30-30. He named his shopping mall in the Dominican Republic 30-30. If he could have, he would have named each of his four children 30-30. Cubs fans, who called him "Sammy So-So," were disgusted when the team re-signed him for $42.5 million for four years...
...since he became a professional ballplayer nine years ago, he has funneled money south. He has lavished three houses on his mother, bought businesses for his sisters, sent computers to schools, donated ambulances to hospitals, handed out so many Christmas gifts he's known as "Sammy Claus," built the mall in his hometown and erected a fountain where all the change that is thrown into it goes to the local shoeshine boys. In front of the mall, of course, is a statue of himself...
...town where he once shined shoes and now owns a mall, Sosa's still...