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...because it gives the rubes the opportunity to say, "I hear he's got $300 million tied up in those two rooms." If you use conspicuous capitalization as your principal marketing tool, the real point of a $300 million art collection is that it costs $300 million. The occasional visitor who's provoked into making smart-aleck remarks about the pillows, like the occasional visitor who has a run of luck on the slots, can be charged off to the cost of doing business...
Maybe it was the elixir of potential wealth in the air, or maybe it was carryover from the eagerness that characterizes recruiting, but the Crimson snagged a win--the first ever by a visitor--in Princeton Stadium because it was supremely opportunistic...
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...
...also hurt itself over the past year, analysts say, with neck-snapping shifts in strategy and laggard execution of the blocking and tackling aspects of retailing, such as controlling inventory and providing polite and knowledgeable service. An assistant manager at a New Jersey Toys "R" Us outlet led a visitor through a cavernous storage room piled floor to ceiling with everything from Micro Machines to mattresses. The store's inventory, she said, often surpasses $1 million. Multiply that by the 1,462 Toys "R" Us stores, and you see the scope of the problem...
...article offered a few facts that actually don't appear in the exhibit, except perhaps to a visitor fluent in Hurrian. It included the Paula Jones-like detail that the mayor "used government agents to bring Humerelli [the woman in question] to 'the trysting place.'" And it mentioned an article in the current issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review that identifies the leader of the 1920s expeditions that unearthed the tablets. His name was Richard F.S. Starr...