Word: resorts
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Having lived much of his adult life in Asia, Kirkwood wanted badly to send his five children to school back in Eastern Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountain region where he was born. Returning to the United States in 1974, he and his wife Ginny purchased an old resort hotel in the area, restoring the neglected building to its historic g1randeur. The inn had a large theatre in the back, and before long Kirkwood had reopened it as the Shawnee Playhouse, which has hosted as many as 14 musicals in the last two seasons. Kirkwood produces all the shows locally...
...Federal Reserve is the "lender of last resort" and will "create the liquidity to save the system." What that means is that Americans, through taxation and inflation, will have to pay to save a group of greedy bankers and irresponsible governments, including...
...missiles launched from nuclear submarines. These weapons constituted the U.S.'s central, or strategic, arsenal?the triad. Then one of West Germany's brightest up-and-coming defense intellectuals and politicians, Helmut Schmidt, argued strenuously in the Bundestag that America's own deterrent of last resort constituted a nuclear umbrella of "extended deterrence" for Western Europe, sheltering NATO's first lines of defense on and around the Continent...
...trace. At week's end police were still trying to learn how much had been taken. Some of the wealthy victims were not in Marbella last week; others preferred to wait to talk to the police until after the mob of Spanish journalists who had swarmed to the resort had disappeared. In addition, some of the money that had been taken might have been what the Spanish refer to as "black money," undeclared income that its owners would just as soon not mention to the authorities...
...bank. Its powers vary from nation to nation. But whether it be the U.S. Federal Reserve system, the Bank of England or the West German Bundesbank, its official duties usually include issuing banknotes, controlling the money system, supervising the banking industry and acting as a lender of last resort...