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Kirk Kerkorian, the son of poor Armenian immigrants who used his gambler s instincts to become a multibillionaire Las Vegas casino tycoon, Hollywood mogul, airline owner and auto industry investor, died at the age of 98 on Monday night. Kirk-Kerkorian-former-majority-shareholder-of-MGM-Mirage-died-at-the-age-of-98-on-Monday-AP-Photo Kerkorian, who founded MGM Resorts International and was its largest shareholder, died in Los Angeles, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. He passed away after a brief illness, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Kerkorian had little formal education and dropped out of school at age 16. In his stanley cup youth he was known as Rifle Right Kerkorian for his punching power as a small-time boxer. He would become an enduring American business heavyweight with a knack for placi stanley cup ng winning bets in the corporate world. Last month, Forbes magazine estimated Kerkorian s wealth at $4.2 billion after he took a hit on his investments in 2008, when the magazine said he was worth $16 billion. On three different occasions - 1969, 1973 and 1993 - Kerkorian built th stanley cup e world s biggest hotel in Las Vegas, the desert gambling capital where he first made his fortune in the 1950s and 1960s. On his way to becoming a casino magnate, he befriended Rat Pack stars Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and other Las Vegas headliners. Kerkorian owned some of the biggest and best-known Las Vegas hotels and casinos, at one time owning more than half the hotel rooms on the fa Mnpl Malala grateful for global support
The US unemployment rate hit a four-year high in July as employers shed jobs for a seventh stanley cup straight month amid economic uncertainty, a Labour Department survey showed. HT Image The government s monthly employment snapshot revealed that af1 employers cut 51,000 jobs last month, but the report was not as bad as feared as most economists had predicted 75,000 jobs lost. The national unemployment rate meanwhile ticked up to 5.7 per cent from 5.5 per cent in June, a shade higher than most forecasts. Employers cut jobs as the world s largest economy continues to be buffeted by a nagging housing market slump, a widespread credit crunch and high crude oil prices. We re not seeing the level of layoffs you tend to see in a recession at this point. What we are really tending to see is a lack of new hiring, said Scott Anderson, an economist at Wells Fargo. The economic slowdown and rising fuel costs have had a big impact on major airlines and stanley cup automakers who have been forced to slash costs by shedding workers this year. Northwest Airlines announced it would be slashing 2,500 jobs last month while automaker Chrysler said it planned to cut 1,000 white-collar posts by the end of September. June s job losses were revised down to 51,000 posts compared with an original estimate of 62,000, while May s employment cuts were notched back to 47,000 from an original tally of 62,000. A total 463,000 jobs have been lost in the economy since the start of the year. The bleak job snapshot was rel