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...billboards that the Hard Rock put up this year - one had a naked woman lying on a blackjack table with a card in her mouth above the line THERE'S ALWAYS A TEMPTATION TO CHEAT. The casino agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a claim that the ads hurt Nevada's image. This, remember, is a state where some cities have legal whorehouses...
...Singapore have yet to legalize gambling, MGM Mirage's Lanni has met with Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to discuss a potential development, and the Sands' Weidner in May offered Singapore $2 billion to put a casino resort on its Sentosa island. Won't this global expansion of gaming hurt the chances of attracting foreign visitors to Vegas? Not at all, say industry optimists who see satellite Sin Cities around the world as teasers for the real deal. One goal of exporting to the Sands Macao such Vegas VIP amenities as access to private jets and exclusive high-limit gaming...
...Most people thought I’d leave in two years and go back to Harvard,” Loveman told The McKinsey Quarterly last year. “They thought this would be like a kidney stone: It would hurt for a while, and then it would pass...
...FRONTIER It wasn't just the 5 o'clock shadow that hurt Richard Nixon on TV. His retreating hair didn't stand a chance against John F. Kennedy's youthful mane...
...begun. He summoned more than 100 of his biggest financial and political backers to a Washington hotel, where he and Kerry stood side by side and asked for their support. Edwards threw himself into the effort, showing up for Kerry whenever and wherever he was asked. It didn't hurt, either, that fellow Senator Jon Corzine and former U.N. Representative Richard Holbrooke called Kerry with rave reviews of how Edwards had wowed the business and political elite at last month's Bilderberg conference in Italy, a secretive annual session where international business and political leaders discuss the state...