Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, the company and Sinatra seemed an ideal match. In addition to its real estate and construction activity, the company owns four major Nevada hotels and casinos: the Sahara and the Mint in Las Vegas, the Sahara Tahoe in Lake Tahoe and the Primadonna in Reno. Sinatra is both a Las Vegas entertainment idol and an entrepreneur. He even held a Nevada gaming license in the early '60s. Evidently impressed by Webb's potential, Sinatra in 1975 quietly began to acquire 420,000 shares, or 5%, of the company's outstanding stock. To finance part...
Fighting back hard, the company launched a suit against Sinatra, Rudin and the Greenspuns, charging that they had sought to force Webb to hire certain entertainers for the Nevada casinos and to sell certain properties. "Their allegation is absolutely untrue," says Greenspun...
Wait a minute. What happened to city boy makes good at state U.? Why did Kirkland spend most of last Saturday concocting yellow and white crystals in a Chem 20 lab rather than playing for University of Nevada, Las Vegas at the Omni in Atlanta, or at least hanging around the USF campus with the rest of the guys? (Both schools recruited Kirkland...
...University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with a murky reputation going back years, is in the NCAA basketball semi-finals. Poor high school kids are offered cars, money and who knows what to attend Got-To-Win-The-Championship U. Of course the athletes deserve all they can get for they officially get so very little in return for their tireless efforts, but where does it leave them if they don't learn anything and they don't make the pros. But we all know it's rotten and there's nothing we can do to change it, right? The championship...
NCAA hoop has picked up the slack a bit, now that nobody has any idea of who the best team in the nation really is. San Francisco had its cover blown two weeks in a row when Notre Dame and Nevada-Las Vegas proved that the Dons' schedule is about as formidable as Beaver Country...