Word: parlays
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...itself. Meanwhile, Frank Gehry's $100 million Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao opened two weeks ago. Built and financed by the Basque regional government, it is essentially a franchise: a major step in the effort by Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, to parlay his museum into an international network of satellites exhibiting art from a common pool--an innovative idea that is still viewed with a good deal of skepticism by more traditional museum officials...
...Crimson should be able to parlay the emotion of the close loss to Brown and the intense training of the next two weeks as perfect motivation for the tournament. There they can prove to the nation, and to themselves, their worthiness to perform on the national stage...
...Fossel, chairman of the $57 billion Oppenheimer Funds company, said just last week that he plans to parlay his prominence in the fund world into a stint as a TV talk-show host. Mutual-fund execs as celebrities is a clear sign of the market's sky-high profile...
...through the press, Yeltsin seems to have decided that Lebed was better off out of his government. He may come to regret it. If Yeltsin's worsening health brings about new presidential elections before the government can cope with massive public resentment over months of unpaid salaries, Lebed could parlay his high profile and solid popularity into a potent bid for the presidency. -->