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Word: excitement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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That must be a tense, excit-place. Stupak, a high school dropout, landed in Las Vegas in 1972. He cruised along in the town's minor leagues with Vegas World until 1989, when the Sahara, just a block away, quadrupled the size of its sign and moved it closer to Stupak's casino, tempting his customers away. Stupak wanted the one-upman's revenge. The Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, the towers in Tokyo and Sydney, Australia, were all profitmaking monuments, he noted. A similar structure--but bigger, of course--would be his answer to modern Vegas' edifice complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: JUST WHAT LAS VEGAS NEEDED | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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