Time peels away in Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel ballroom as they sway to big band tunes, soundtracks of their youth.

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James Murren, MGM's chief financial officer, decided MGM should partner with Soffer to build condominiums at the mothballed 18-acre amusement park at the MGM Grand hotel.

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So Robert Guerrero was somewhat prepared when Mayweather picked him to be the opponent for his first fight in a year Saturday night at the MGM Grand hotel.

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And by the eighth round the 32-year-old Pacquiao had forced Mosley into a full defensive mode, the American's tactics prompting boos from sections of the 16, 000 crowd at the MGM Grand Hotel.

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Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez will enter the ring Saturday night at the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas for the fourth and presumably final time (so says Pacquiao).

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By comparison, the MGM Grand has 5, 000 hotel rooms.

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Despite fears that Las Vegas would suffer from an excess of new hotels, a torrent of visitors left not a single room empty for a single day at MGM Grand's namesake casino-hotel in the second quarter.

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The second or third largest hotel on earth, depending how you count, the MGM Grand is a true Las Vegas icon: the city's largest hotel, a major concert and sporting event venue, full of nightlife and entertainment options and celebrity chef restaurants, including arguably the nation's single best fine dining spot, the 3-Michelin starred, Forbes 5-Star, Joel Robuchon.

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In October, MGM Hospitality announced that it intends to build three giant Las Vegas-style hotels an MGM Grand, a Bellagio and a Skylofts hotel -- in Mumbai.

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