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...hotel/casino company, will open a fun-and-games palace in Atlantic City. It will be Harrah's second one there and its first on the famous Boardwalk. The hotel will have 614 rooms, and its 39 stories will make it the tallest building so far in the construction boom that began there in the late 1970s...
...know-how, inspecting a solar-powered village in Davis before sitting down with high-powered Silicon Valley executives at Stanford University. The French President was rapt when Whiz-Kid Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., explained how venture capital and small companies helped trigger the Silicon Valley boom...
Perhaps, but the price of a pending sale of the Denver Broncos is reportedly not much lower. The Dallas transaction, largest in sports history, includes $20 million for the remaining 65 years on the lease to operate Texas Stadium, where Bright, 63, is shortly expected to announce a building boom in luxury boxes, the sale of which could bring $40 million (one stadium box recently went for $1 million). Real Estate Executive Craig Hall, 33, a 10% holder, said, "Nobody is looking to take large dividends. The investment will continue to appreciate if the team is allowed to maintain...
...boom in phony card charges is partly due to a crackdown on another type of telephone abuse. For years operators seldom asked questions when travelers charged long-distance calls to their home phones. But so many calls were being billed to unwary customers that operators now usually phone a person at the number given to get approval. Says Scott Smith, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Pacific Bell: "Credit cards are becoming the sole source of telephone fraud...
Producers insist that the sound-track boom has not marred their judgment of what makes a good film. Moreover, even the youngest of the new Hollywood moguls can recall the heady months following Saturday Night Fever. The studios scrambled to duplicate that film's success and came up with such box-office flops as FM, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Says Footloose Executive Producer Daniel Melnick: "If you don't have a picture the audience really enjoys, you could have 100 hours a week on MTV and it wouldn...