Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dull stuff, prudence. Anthony Holden never hesitated: he wobbled out into the night. But as Holden, a British literary critic, reached the Golden Nugget's cardroom, he remembered the gambler's formula for chump detection: "If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table...
...stodgy Dow Jones average, which fell from 3000 to 2500 between July 17 and Aug. 23. But that was the least of it. Most stocks dropped much more than that. Boeing was down from 60 1/4 to 42 1/2. Disney was down from 131 1/4 to 95 1/8. Golden Nugget, from...
...week. By contrast, Atlantic City appeals largely to bettors who arrive by bus and leave the same day. "Atlantic City has to try to become a destination resort, which means that it has to be a place where folks want to go," says Steve Wynn, chairman of Golden Nugget, which opened the $617 million, 3,200-room Mirage hotel complex in Las Vegas last November. Adds Wynn: "Las Vegas hasn't exactly been tasteful or elegant, but it is exciting. For 50 years, it's always kept that promise...