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DURHAM, N.H.—From the first drop of the puck, freshman Sarah Vaillancourt turned the Olympic-sized ice of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center into her own personal playground...
...billion expansion--are just part of a bigger plan. They fit into the "superlative" strategy of the ruling Maktoum family. The tiny emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf--once a significant trading hub--is now spending billions of dollars to become the world's high-end playground. And getting Emirates' brand known worldwide is part of that plan: last year the airline spent $150 million to buy the naming rights for a new 60,000-seat stadium for the popular London soccer team Arsenal. It was the biggest sponsorship of its kind in British history...
...producer. That's when Shaw began to phase out film production in favor of TV. Though other studios filled the gap for a while, Hong Kong, which had made 234 movies in 1993, produced only 64 last year. That makes the very existence of Shaw's high-tech cinematic playground, which is scheduled to fully open in half a year, a surprise in itself. But to Chao, a Hong Kong native who joined the project 10 months ago, Shaw Studios is a $180 million vote of confidence that the industry still has life. "The Hong Kong film industry is going...
...billion expansion?are just part of a bigger plan. They fit into the "superlative" strategy of the ruling Maktoum family. The tiny emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf?once a significant trading hub?is now spending billions of dollars to become the world's high-end playground. And getting Emirates' brand known worldwide is part of that plan: last year the airline spent $150 million to buy the naming rights for a new 60,000-seat stadium for the popular London soccer team Arsenal. It was the biggest sponsorship of its kind in British history...
...should just turn off the TV or radio. "It isn't necessarily what we keep our kids from," he says, "but our inability to keep other kids from certain material, who then share it with our kids in school and elsewhere. It's like dumping toxic waste in a playground...