Word: resorted
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...also in love. His wife Eva, a refugee herself, recalls their first meeting at a New Hampshire resort where they both worked in the summer of 1957--he as a busboy, she as a waitress. Eva recalls the encounter ("He had a bad accent, even though he doesn't think so!") as a lightning bolt: "I walked into this room, and there were a bunch of guys. One shook my hand, and it was, you know, like shaking a limp fish. But then there was this really good-looking guy who shook my hand, and I was just like...
...Commerce, which has 10%. Says Gillett, who has a hard time containing his optimism: "The demographics are with us. Skiing is at the same point it was 25 years ago--at the brink of another great growth period." The only thing he's missing, he concedes, is a signature resort like Vail...
...pagan in origin, but does that justify a special Christmas episode of Melrose Place in which Jennifer tries to blackmail Lexi, who ODs? And as for the drama specials, most of which seem to star Richard Thomas, they certainly ought to make us cry, but they too often resort to the cheapest tricks...
...those unacquainted with the thrills of international economics, the IMF is in essence both a bank of last resort and a fiscal reform school for wayward economies. When countries such as Thailand and South Korea admit their sins--too much debt, too much spending and a lack of controls on their banking industries--the fund sends in the economists, armed with several financing schemes. There are short-term loans to stanch the bleeding and stop the flight of capital. The fund also negotiates for longer, 10-year credit agreements, as well as so-called concessional loans, or grants...
...luxury. He is very fond of his 282-ft. Kingdom 5-KR, the ostentatious yacht formerly owned by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and then by Donald Trump, who called it the Trump Princess before the banks took it back. Alwaleed keeps the boat moored in the southern French resort of Cannes. He takes about three long business trips a year and, depending on the distance, can choose from a private jet fleet that includes a Boeing 767, a Boeing 727 and a Challenger 601. He owns some 300 cars, including a blue Rolls-Royce for his daughter...