Word: strippings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1950s, Mickey had theme park, a newspaper comic strip, and The Mickey Mouse Club, the hit television variety show that has launched the careers of teen stars from Annette Funicello to Justin Timberlake. But soon Disney feature films like Bambi and Sleeping Beauty began to rake in the accolades - and box office receipts - the mouse faded into the background. Between his last 1953 cartoon short, The Simple Things, and the 1983 Christmas special Mickey's Christmas Carol, the mouse that built the house of Disney would remain out of work for 30 years...
...making backup plans to enact if the Sands fails to raise the necessary funds to complete construction. Then, on Nov. 13, the cash-strapped company announced that it would layoff up to 11,000 construction workers in Macau, after its decision to suspend work on part of the Cotai Strip - a $12 billion undertaking. On Thursday, Las Vegas Sands' share price closed at $5.58, down 95% from its peak last December...
...postponement of the Sands' Cotai Strip project may not be end of the bad news, according to Gabriel Chan, a Credit Suisse gaming analyst in Hong Kong. While operators are still making profits, the Sands isn't the only one that may have difficulty finding cash to finance its newest developments. Chan says the Galaxy Entertainment Group, which is building the Cotai Mega Resorts in Macau, is also likely to run into trouble. Any additional job cuts will further kindle discontent among blue-collar Macanese workers, who have long complained about losing construction jobs to less expensive mainland workers...
...economic and social problems that have started to fester beneath those glowing numbers. "On a whole, [the slowdown] is good for Macau," he says. "It was going too fast." Since 2003, gaming revenue has increased by an average of 30% per year, eclipsing that of the Las Vegas Strip by 2006. With 54% of GDP in 2007 coming from gaming, Macau has become somewhat of a one-trick pony that has neglected to develop other sectors. "The gaming industry has been growing at the expense of other industries," says Chan, who stresses that small- and medium-size businesses cannot match...
...open-toed sandals and stilts on open lists apparently tend to draw attention. Student performances ranged from a romantic duet of “A Whole New World” by a falsetto, flat-chested Jasmine (albeit, with impeccable makeup) and a shorter-than-average Aladdin, to a quasi-strip tease dance by the emcees and their friend “Chocolate” to the beat of “Discovery Channel.” One lucky audience member even received not one, but two lap dances from these lovely ladies before bolting out of the dining hall...