Word: vip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figured he could help the state's economy by bringing it into the mainstream. His ladies of the evening would look more like Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke than street-hardened hookers. To attract investors, he was offering sex coupons, promises of "three girls for the price of one" and "VIP" cards good for a week of unlimited visits. The project was put on hold after prison officials fired him under a policy forbidding employees to hold second jobs in certain establishments. Governor Bob Miller also objected to the bordello, which would have been only 10 miles from the state capital...
Amid the throngs of gamblers in Atlantic City, Debra Kim Cohen stood out. A former beauty queen, she dropped thousands of dollars at blackjack tables. Casino managers acknowledged her lavish patronage by plying her with the perks commonly accorded VIP customers: free limo rides, meals, even rooms. Cohen, after all, was a high roller. It apparently did not disturb casino officials that she was also a teenager and -- at 17 -- four years shy of New Jersey's legal gambling...
What accounts for CNN's admittedly VIP standing with the Iraqi government? The network's importance as a supplier of news in 103 countries around the world has a lot to do with it. As is now well known, its viewers include Saddam Hussein; during the gulf crisis, many Middle Eastern leaders, as well as many officials in the U.S., have relied upon CNN as a sort of instant 24- hour messenger service...
According to the officials, Murphy, who has been trained by the United States Secret Service, will either head a revamped VIP protection operation or leave the department entirely...
...reviled as the former Minister of the Interior and Defense under the exiled dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and the onetime head of the dreaded Tontons Macoutes, but when Roger Lafontant arrived in Port-au-Prince from exile in Santo Domingo last week, he was given a VIP reception despite orders from the government not to admit him. Lafontant's unwelcome return came only a few days after the arrival of another exiled Duvalier associate, Major General Williams Regala...