Word: nugget
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...father's cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, New Jersey, (with financing from junk bonds floated by Michael Milken). His next big move put an indelible stamp on the Strip: Wynn opened the Mirage, a shimmering temple of camp, with white tigers...
...father's cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J. (with financing from junk bonds floated by Michael Milken). His next big move put an indelible stamp on the Strip: Wynn opened the Mirage, a shimmering temple of camp, with white tigers behind...
Most of us grew up eating animal products, and chances are great that we rarely, if ever, thought twice about where a chicken nugget or a hot dog came from. If it did happen to cross our mind that our entrée had come from animals, it’s possible we thought they had led a happy life before they were killed painlessly...
...This ridiculous argument contains a small nugget of truth. Matt Mahan, one of the Senior Gift Plus organizers, has suggested that Senior Gift Plus will help students think critically about how they give money. I’m not worried that “thinking critically” will turn into “T-bills Divestment Campaign,” but critical thinking may threaten Harvard’s fundraising. Harvard will never be the world’s neediest cause. With an endowment second only to the Catholic Church, Harvard can’t tug the heart strings...
...comfort to more distant alarms ... For all his flamboyance?he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair?Adair is methodical about his business, [and] carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire 'so as to have a little nugget handy in our minds to lick a problem next time it shows...