Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...publicly held Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc. to buy his privately held Trump's Castle casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for $490 million, shareholders howled that they had been taken by the less than self-effacing subject of Trump:The Art of the Deal to the tune of some $100 million. Trump Hotels stock dropped 30% over the following weeks. More bad news rolled in when a reported $600 million deal to sell half of the Castle to the London-based Rank Organization and transform it into a Hard Rock casino crapped out after a long negotiation...
...they love their Packers? One couple used the occasion of the N.F.C. title game to marry (the bride wore green and gold), and one family surreptitiously spread the ashes of a dear departed on the field afterward. The most played dance tune in Wisconsin is, yes, the Packarena. The waiting list for season tickets is 30,000 names long; only the top five made the cut last year. On Jan. 25 the Packers will sell 25,000 specially designed boxes of "Frozen Tundra," pulled up from Lambeau after the Mud Bowl victory over the 49ers...
...hour tete-a-tete with Fidel Castro. The trip has raised concerns in Washington, which shuns any contact with Havana and criticized Canada for rewarding the dictator. Yet Canada has long had a special relationship with Cuba. It is the biggest foreign investor on the island, trading to the tune of $500 million last year. Axworthy has not minced words in criticizing the Helms-Burton act, which threatens to retaliate against foreign companies doing business in Cuba. Prime Minister Jean Chretien seconded his foreign minister, maintaining that Washington's policy of isolation gives Castro an excuse to stay in power...
Perhaps if faculty members were more in tune with our age and developing personalities, they might connect with us beyond rating our ability to digest esoteric essays from the trendy perspectives of the marginalized...
...Fidelity Investments "Time" How easy it would be to create a boring mutual-funds ad. But Fidelity's TV campaign isn't. To the tune Time Has Come Today, each ad displays a series of arresting images--many surreal--depicting life passages alongside grand technological advances. The ads are artful and pointed: the world moves quickly; invest...