Word: trumping
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...week unsealed an indictment against several people, some of whom are thought to have Mafia ties, for tampering with slot machines at Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Hilton Hotels Corp. has also decided to open up in the city and earlier this autumn announced plans to construct its own $250 million hotel-and-casino complex. Resorts...
...Benita warns Willy in one of the film's more tensely dramatic moments; "he seats you at life!" "I just don't know when I'm at," is Willy's sullen reply. She: "You're at the end of the line!" And so they decide together to murder Howard, trump it up, as an accident, and collect on the insurance...
...opportunity to devote more energy towards research is one of Harvard's strongest trump cards in negotiating with MIT economists. Dornbusch and Flacher both-say the subject was stressed in their discussions with the University. In addition, several professors else the abundance of research time an the factor the clinched Summers decision to accept Harvard's offer. (Summers himself has been unreachable for comment...
...executive Dana also campaigned on Burke's death penalty stance and threw in the busing issue as well. It was aclever tactic, but Burke had never been involved with the busing debate, and the Board of Supervisors had never had any jurisdiction over either issue. When Dana played his trump card on the last weekend of the campaign and defeated Burke, she decided to bow out of elective politics for good...
...Among those who expressed interest: Warner Communications Inc.; New York Real Estate Developer Donald Trump; American Stock Exchange Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr.; New York State Power Authority Chairman John Dyson...