Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does Boris Yeltsin have to worry about assassination, on top of everything else? "Not really, because if you wanted to kill Yeltsin you'd have to go to Sochi, the Black Sea resort to which he's retreated," says Zharakovich. "And once there you'd be distracted by all the other attractions -- it's like Florida...
What Strong's book doesn't explain is why kids who haven't been sexually or physically abused during their childhood resort to cutting. On Dateline NBC, the subject had suffered her parents' painful divorce in early childhood, which, with the birth of a physically and mentally disabled younger brother, was enough to produce self-injury later in life...
...driving feature of Vegas will always be gambling, but the days of giving away rooms to gamblers are over," says Stephen Bollenbach, CEO of Hilton, which is building the $760 million re-creation of Paris. The idea now is to command better room rates, more on a par with resort or European vacation destinations, by offering comparable accommodations. A discounted room on the Strip now goes for $49 to $99. To sleep in Hilton's Paris will probably cost double that...
...hours a day in the casinos, after all.) Gamblers who used to make an average of 11 trips to Las Vegas over a five-year period now make only seven. So the city of "Lost Wages" is repositioning itself in the leisure market. "We're no longer a gaming resort but a destination resort," says Chamber of Commerce senior vice president Kara Kelley...
...best known as a serious, soul-baring folk-rocker, but the chart success of Sheik's 1996 single Barely Breathing outed him as a pop tunesmith with a knack for gorgeous songwriting that doesn't resort to schmaltz. Sheik's new CD veers back toward his dour side, where he finds plenty to be glum about--the perils of record-business starmaking in Nothing Special and the falseness of big-city life in That Says It All. It's no surprise that he intends to avoid being trapped in lightweight pop: he's 28 and wants a long career...