Word: resorted
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...awkwardly demurred, insisting that the ban would not be verifiable without on-site inspection. Gorbachev promptly retorted that the ban could be verified with existing satellites and seismic devices. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes huffed last week that nuclear testing is "far too serious from our standpoint to resort to public relations gimmicks...
...international family destination. Expectations that he was going to top his past extravaganzas were so huge that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 43-m man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in April, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage in 1989, the pirate ships he put outside Treasure Island in 1993 or the giant pond he created with...
...homes, including on Paris' Left Bank and New York City's Park Avenue, and in villas in Colombia and Pietrasanta, Italy. The late Prince Rainier of Monaco gave Botero a studio in Monte Carlo, where he spends several weeks a year. And Villa del Sol, a plush beachfront resort in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, built a suite to Botero's specifications, and hosts the artist there one month each winter. This perpetual motion notches up considerable air miles. But the greatest distance Botero has traveled is from his dirt-poor beginnings. His father battled to keep his family afloat in Medell...
...have to resort to student help,” band member Arnold H. Aronson ’56 told The Crimson in early February, 1955. “There’s just no other way we can get the money...
...Strip. On Valentine's Day morning, Bruce Hiatt, a broker and co-owner of Luxury Realty Group, showed up at the Strip's Four Seasons Hotel with a stack of 14 signed checks. Each of his clients was determined to buy a spot in the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino, a property that will not exist until late 2007 or 2008 and for which a shovel will not touch the earth until fall. "It's a zoo," says Hiatt. "Buildable land here is running out. We have only one place to go, and that's up." By March 1, the tiniest...