Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Resorts International Hotel, which houses the new casino, is trusting that the bettors will keep coming up losers. Resorts Board Chairman James M. Crosby speculates that after being enlarged this summer, the casino will be bigger than any in Las Vegas and will eventually take in $100 million a year. Atlantic City officials have high hopes that the spinning wheels will pull them out of the massive slump this once glorious resort has been suffering. Fifty years ago, it was the leading vacation and convention center on the East Coast. Even before the casino turns a profit, the refurbished...
...quaint dairy farms in Vermont, suburban shopping centers and downtown office buildings and hotels. Capital from overseas is financing the construction of new factories in every region and the takeover of old-line U.S. corporations of every description. The money is going into farm land, ranch land and waterfront resort communities...
Historian Arnold Toynbee recognizes the international neglect that has nurtured a sense of desperateness among the Palestinians and has caused them to resort to such extreme means...
...message is simple: The Palestinians are not just "PLO lunatics," but are embittered refugees who have resorted to terrorist warfare out of mounting frustration. Although it might seem not only brutal but futile for the Palestinians to resort to terrorist action directed toward helpless Israeli kibbutzniks, one must realize that many Palestinian commandos have sadly concluded that 30 years of international neglect have made such terrorist action necessary to cry out their cause...
...international forums such as the U.N. and talks in Geneva have not solved the Palestinian refugee diaspora. The 1967 Arab defeat was the final blow that showed these embittered Palestinians that conventional Arab warfare was not an effective means by which to promote their cause, and that they must resort to independent commando action to make that cause audible...