Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid the "celebrity poet" spotlight. (In fact, he was in the Greek islands when the Nobel Prize announcement was made.) This came across in Heaney's three lectures and three "talking shop" sessions (informal talk-cum-question-and-answer sessions), in which the always-congenial poet delivered a friendly mix of jokes, poems, literary commentary and anecdotes about his travels, and even political outrage in his lush and intoxicating Irish brogue...
...regular lifting andrunning," Lewis says. "Everybody's goal is to bephysically stronger than their opponent, and someguys feel that, by taking performance enhancers,they can have an edge. I can see the reasoningbehind using them."Crimson File PhotoA LITTLE KECK: Senior JASON KECK saysCreatine and catcher do not mix...
Monaghan was long known more for self-indulgence than for selflessness. He amassed a gaudy mix of Bugatti autos, Frank Lloyd Wright drawings and artifacts, and a dream ranch in Ann Arbor where herds of buffalo roamed. Monaghan explained those sprees as compensation for the fact that his mother abandoned him at the age of four to foster homes and an orphanage. As owner of the Detroit Tigers, he liked to swoop down on home games in his helicopter. He once considered building a 35-story slanted tower dubbed--what else?--the Leaning Tower of Pizza...
...almost enough to make you want to spend a weekend in Vegas, just to see how the new machine works. But what is the view across the lake going to look like, once Hilton has finished its own contribution to the urban mix, the Paris Las Vegas, with a half-size replica of the Eiffel Tower right across from the shores of Bellagio? Don't ask. Never mind. For sure, it won't have any Picassos...
...including $6.2 billion on gambling, which was up from $5.7 billion two years before. But the gaming take along the Strip has gone from 58% of total revenues 10 years ago to 53% today. That's the official figure. Major hoteliers, however, put casino revenues at 40% of the mix, or even 25% if retail sales are included in the total. (Gamblers spend an average of only four hours a day in the casinos, after all.) Gamblers who used to make an average of 11 trips to Las Vegas over a five-year period now make only seven...