“It’s like children’s theater for 40-year-old gay people,” says a muse in “Xanadu,” the 2007 hit Broadway musical comedy written by Douglas Carter Beane with music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar and based on the 1980 cult film staring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.
With just 74 branches, U.S. Bank lacks the street-corner presence that its larger competitors — Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp. — have in Nevada. But that’s all right with Lori Soren, whose strategy for the bank with $2.22 billion in local deposits includes mobile banking offerings, smarter ATMs and supermarket branches.
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Casino developers — including MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd. — will spend some $22 billion on massive new resorts and gambling complexes in Macau over the next four years.
They always tell you to start a business that involves something you love, and Jim and Adrienne Breen love dogs.
Some companies were still shrinking as recently as 2012, Seattle-based PayScale Inc. says. PayScale reports amassing compensation data with 36 million salary profiles. More than a fifth (21 percent) of large organizations shrank, while 17 percent of both small and medium-sized companies did.
While still in law school, Jennifer Ko Craft spent her last two summers clerking for Andre Agassi. After graduation she became his in-house associate general counsel for two years, while at the same time working for Shaquille O’Neal.
Look closely, and you’ll see the new talk of the town.
A judge’s ruling that federal officials had interfered with a Nevada ranch family’s water rights and grazing permits sparked U.S. Sen. Dean Heller into an angry speech last week against government overreach.
