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...managed to keep the project going through a desperate battle for financing deals with Dubai World, a number of people who signed up for condominiums are looking to bail. So MGM Mirage, which owns the most properties on Las Vegas Boulevard - the Strip - ducked and weaved around bankruptcy for six months earlier this year by pumping $140 million, almost a quarter of its monthly revenues, into the project. MGM sold off Treasure Island at a bargain price: Phil Ruffin, the buyer, paid the equivalent of $225,000 for each room on the property; CityCenter's rooms cost about $1.5 million...
...this situation we decided to give the south the right of self-determination and gave ourselves a period of six years with the goal of building trust between southern citizens and northern citizens and to cultivate a culture of peace, because most of the youth in the south today were born and raised during...
...goal is to achieve development in the south that would convince southern citizens to vote for unity. We think that six years as a transitional period is a short time to rebuild an area the size of southern Sudan. It is not an easy task...
TIME: How will the U.S. recovery play out? Biggs: The surprise is going to be how strongly the U.S. - and the world for that matter - emerges from this thing over the next six to nine months. History says the steeper the decline, the steeper the recovery, and I think we'll see that play out. In addition, we've had unprecedented amounts of stimulus, both fiscal and monetary, as well as coordination by governments and central banks around the world. I think we are going to have a very steep recovery that is going to last for another...
...also expect we'll get some surprises on the business side. Businesses overreacted to the severity of the recession - they cut capital spending, they cut advertising, they cut employment very, very dramatically. They overcut. In the next six months, we are going to be in a period where businesses hire back aggressively and spend on capital equipment and advertising and all those things very aggressively. (See 10 big recession surprises...