Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event that Dallhold Investments -- the holding company through which Bond owned the picture -- defaulted. The auction house rejected this proposal. In late 1988 Bond himself reportedly tried to pass off Irises to the New York megadeveloper Donald Trump as partial payment on a $180 million deal for the St. Moritz Hotel. Trump, no collector, said the painting was worth only $30 million and turned him down...
...Forman '90 Brian R. Hecht '92 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Features Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Editorial Editor: Steven J. S. Glick '91 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editor: Rebekah K. Seaton '91 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Suzanne Petren Moritz...
This is not a cheap undertaking. A salvageable railroad car can cost as little as $25,000, but outfitting it may run to nearly $1 million. A walk through the St. Moritz club car, lately a derelict on a siding in Milwaukee, with broken windows and a cargo of snow, made the figure plausible. The bar is black granite, the baby grand piano an ebony Baldwin. Walls are paneled in embossed dark green leather. Brass, art deco lamps match the brass soffit, a three-inch strip separating walls from a car-long mural of mountain peaks. The ceiling...
Jennifer L. Greenstein, Juliet E. Headrick, Suzanne Petren Moritz, Philip M. Rubin and Dhananjai Shivakumar contributed to the reporting of this article...
...California firm, which provides equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin boards frequently used by hackers, LeeMah promised that any successful code breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti. More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to retrieve the hidden message in the computer. The odds against them, estimated LeeMah: 720 quadrillion...