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...chronic headaches. Disability claims are now swamping HEW, which has had to hire 650 administrative judges to hear all the appeals?more judges than the entire federal court system uses. Even so, there is a backlog of 133,860 cases. If their claims are rejected by HEW, people usually resort to the courts, where they often...
...Resorts International Hotel, which houses the new casino, is trusting that the bettors will keep coming up losers. Resorts Board Chairman James M. Crosby speculates that after being enlarged this summer, the casino will be bigger than any in Las Vegas and will eventually take in $100 million a year. Atlantic City officials have high hopes that the spinning wheels will pull them out of the massive slump this once glorious resort has been suffering. Fifty years ago, it was the leading vacation and convention center on the East Coast. Even before the casino turns a profit, the refurbished...
...quaint dairy farms in Vermont, suburban shopping centers and downtown office buildings and hotels. Capital from overseas is financing the construction of new factories in every region and the takeover of old-line U.S. corporations of every description. The money is going into farm land, ranch land and waterfront resort communities...
...billion on an 18-year project to build an entire town, Villages of Homestead, that will add more than 14,000 homes to the tight south Florida market and provide 4,000 jobs. On South Carolina's Kiawah Island, the Kuwait Investment Co. is building a $500 million resort community. In New Orleans' old Vieux Carre district, an Iranian investment foundation is helping finance the development of a 23-acre complex of offices, apartments and a glass-enclosed shopping mall...
Historian Arnold Toynbee recognizes the international neglect that has nurtured a sense of desperateness among the Palestinians and has caused them to resort to such extreme means...