At a White House meeting Monday, President Obama — obviously concerned that he can’t go on forever blaming the nation’s dire economic straits on his predecessor, George W. Bush — twisted the arms of the nation’s top bankers, insisting that they start lending again, on the theory this will boost the economy.
When the design firm of New York-based Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, EE&K, laid out a master plan for a site on the Strip known as 55 West more than five years ago, the challenge was to develop a location with New York City-type density but with Las Vegas accessibility.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oil-rich Abu Dhabi pumped $10 billion into its indebted neighbor Monday, sending stocks soaring while sparing Dubai and the rest of the Emirates federation the humiliation of an imminent default by one of the struggling Arab boomtown’s star companies.
The six-state Intermountain West region has been hit hardest by the economic crisis, with Las Vegas, Phoenix and Boise, Idaho, remaining as the most troubled metropolitan areas in the entire nation in the third quarter, Brookings Mountain West reported Monday.
Jim Livengood didn’t wait for anyone to ask, quickly addressing at this morning’s forum his motivation for wanting to become UNLV’s next athletic director. “I’m not interested in retiring. I’m interested in working,” he said. “I am incredibly interested in trying to become (the) new athletic director at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.”
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