Word: trading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard cross-country is ready. Ready to trade in the long, stressful, painful months of training for a chance to come up huge today in a race which will ultimately last less than 30 minutes...
...also surprised at your limited take on international terrorism. The United States was completely justified in bombing terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan, since these nations do indeed have a highly developed military-industrial complex which supports the spread of terror. Do several well-organized camps supplied by international trade routes and backed up by billions of dollars not fit into a definition of "highly developed...
Real pessimists predict a three-year bloodbath, especially if upper-crust vacationers don't show up in the predicted numbers, leaving half-empty high-cost hotels. The Strip's bread-and-butter visitor isn't likely to trade up to $150-a-night rooms from $49 ones, even if there's a mint on the pillow. Hilton chief Bollenbach (who is also on the board at Time Warner, the parent company of TIME) is predicting 18 months of bruising battles, with older, smaller properties taking a hit from big outfits like...
Adelson made a fortune in the trade-show business, and he financed some of the Venetian's construction by selling Comdex, the world's biggest trade show, for $900 million. Although Las Vegas does plenty of convention business, Adelson wants to compete for the monster shows that now go to Chicago's McCormick Place or Orlando's Orange County Center, in Florida...
...annual Independent Feature Film Market, which took place last month at a Manhattan multiplex, typically features some 200 feature-length movies (many not yet even finished) competing for investors, distributors, exposure, oxygen, life. With an atmosphere of equal parts hubris and desperation, it is a cross between a trade show, a film festival and a bazaar, and a far cry from what most people envision when they think of independent film: Matt Damon smoking cigars at a Miramax Oscar party. Since I had long been curious about the unsung breadth of no-budget filmmaking--the new American folk...