Word: taj
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...TRANSLATED a wedding invitation in Dutch at the Taj Mahal's employment office while looking for a job in Atlantic City last week. The "Human Resources Manager" was grateful and impressed, but in the end, all she could offer me was a job as a bus greeter at $3.80 an hour...
Approached from the boardwalk, the facade of the Taj Mahal actually looks edible, the work of a candymaker gone mad. The building sprawls along 17 beach-front acres, resembling a vast white meringue, iced with 70 fruit- flavored minarets and topped off with dribbles of gold. Peppermint lampposts line walkways that are guarded by nine stone elephants, among the very few decorative items on the property that are not fiberglass. The sculptors made sure the trunks swooped upward, an Indian sign for good luck. "We're striving for authenticity," explains architect Francis Xavier Dumont, 34, "where guests will feel like...
Whether it all succeeds, of course, depends on whether enough people agree with Trump, especially the high rollers and conventioneers whom Trump must separate from their money if his grandiose endeavor is to succeed. The whole point of the Taj Mahal to create enough ballrooms, exhibition space and hype to lure conventions away from places like Orlando, Las Vegas and New Orleans. But analysts give Trump's gamble long odds. To begin with, the weather in February is less than hospitable, and the Taj is hard to get to from most parts of the country. Traffic congeals on summer weekends...
Experts agree that Trump will have to struggle to clear the million dollars a day -- some say as high as $1.2 million -- he will need just to keep up payments on his $675 million debt. "I am concerned about the staying power of the Taj in the winter months," says Marvin B. Roffman, until last week a respected gaming analyst for Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia. "In a slow economy, I have reservations of whether he can break even." Trump does not take kindly to such warnings. When Roffman offered his analysis to the Wall Street Journal, calling Atlantic City...
Trump's heavy-handed gag order belied his sunny predictions for the Taj. But he dismisses the notion that he is at any risk. "People think I'm a gambler," he once observed. "I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house." Unless, of course, it's a house of cards, teetering in a strong Atlantic wind...