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...parlor in Venice, Calif., for $500; ever after, he catered to the small-time player. At both his Reno and Lake Tahoe gaming resorts, Harrah used computers to track daily profits and detect betting-table swindles. He also hired guards to watch for cheaters from high catwalks and through one-way ceiling mirrors. An antique-car buff, he opened a museum outside Reno that houses 1,400 vintage automobiles maintained by 150 mechanics...
...Apparently the only time the jail staff kept an eye on Thevis and McLean was when the two were allowed to have sex in a deputy's office. According to investigators, three deputies and three New Albany policemen gave the porno king appropriate treatment by watching through a one-way mirror. The night before Thevis was to be returned to Springfield-he had lost the case and was ordered to pay $675,000 to insurance companies and a former peep-show competitor-he was let out of his cell to make a phone call. He never returned. Three hours...
Both sides benefit from this selling of America. For too long, international investment has been a one-way street, with the U.S. spending billions to set up plants and factories abroad. U.S. multinationals have spread prosperity around the globe, but they have also eliminated jobs for American workers at home, and this has increased pressure to block imports that further threaten American jobs. Now foreign investors are returning those jobs to the U.S., and that will make it more difficult for the U.S. to revert to nearsighted protectionism. Explains Economist Louis Wells of the Harvard Business School, an expert...
Save "incredible" for him, but use "strong" and "encouraging" for many aspects of the Harvard show that turned a two-way first half street into a one-way victory cruise...
Well, it was a one-way romance, and maybe Billy Joel is getting a little of his own back. Now is certainly the time for it; since a wide-ranging, heavily attended concert tour and the release last September of his fifth album, The Stranger, the returns have been heavy, and all flowing in his direction. The album glided into the Top Five this week, and it has long since gone way past platinum (1 million copies sold) with ease...