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...companies are often surprised when they look closely at the benefits of rapidly developing regional economies. Airline deregulation, for example, has spawned handy new international hubs in places once better known for their bus terminals. Atlanta has played its airport trump card effectively, one reason Holiday Inn is in the midst of moving there from Memphis. Says Memphis Chamber of Commerce president David Cooley: "We don't have a nonstop to London, and Atlanta does...
...little research in the New York phone book turned up the name of Sheila Kurtz, a certified master graphologist who has analyzed the scribblings of Dwight Gooden, Barbara Bush and Donald Trump, among others...
With the economy in the doldrums and real estate prices depressed, Trump has been scraping desperately for more than a year to meet his interest payments. His bankers bailed him out last summer, realizing with a chill how badly they had been taken and how thoroughly mired they were in the mess. He was carrying a $300 million mortgage on the Plaza, $120 million on the Grand Hyatt, $75 million on Trump Tower. In December his father Fred, a builder in Queens, N.Y., had to lend him $3.5 million to pay his bills. Appropriately enough, Fred did so by purchasing...
...they are facing facts. What they may not have anticipated is how expensive it will be to get out from under Trump's operations. Brinkmanship is the stuff that gamblers are made of, after all, and casino magnate Trump cut his teeth at the edge-of-the-cliff school of negotiations. Don't count him out yet. While he will own less at the end of these negotiations, he will also owe less, and the effect on his net worth remains to be seen. After filling an inside straight in the first round of talks, he's already halfway...
...giving up the Trump Shuttle, his yacht, The Trump Princess, and other properties, the developer could keep such prizes as the Plaza Hotel, Trump Tower and his three Atlantic City casinos while slashing his debt...