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Archive for November 17th, 2005
Thursday, November 17, 2005 Let countries decide their own fate By Len Butcher The war in Iraq continues. American and soldiers from other countries, including Iraq, continue to be killed, as do countless number of civilians. Most of the Middle East countries hate us even more. Our country is divided and our president’s popularity has hit an all-time low. To be fair, not everything is negative. Some [...]
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 Can a real business lose $5 million … a day? By Ian Mylchreest When you see a headline like the one on this Associated Press story about Delta Airlines, it almost makes you wonder why they don't just put these behemoths out of their misery?
Las Vegas seems to have made the transition to the new low-cost carriers like Southwest, which means we will barely be touched even if [...]
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 Poster and Breitling have the Midas touch By Ian Mylchreest The dot com boys seem to have done it again, according to a report in this morning's Las Vegas Sun.
Landry's Restaurants, the new owner of the Golden Nugget, has had to 'fess up to the SEC that they actually paid $345 million for the downtown Las Vegas property, not $295 million — the number the [...]
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 Chanos to the rescue By Steve Sebelius Is there anybody out there who doubts — if brand-new Attorney General George Chanos hadn't announced an investigation, the Las Vegas City Council would have rammed and jammed the Bill Walters matter through on Wednesday?
We didn't think so.
Instead, the council decided to re-impose the deed restriction that limits the land's use to a golf [...]
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 Accountability, anyone? By Steve Sebelius Another day, another part falling off the Las Vegas Monorail.
According to the Review-Journal, which keeps track of these things fairly well, a four-foot, 10-pound Fiberglas wheel skirt fell off a monorail train on Sunday morning. Another train then ran that part over. As a result, the system was shut down until early afternoon.
Sure, [...]
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