Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York is still the Big Apple, with a 1978 record of 875 conventions, 3.75 million delegates, $600 million revenues. Attractions: 100,000 hotel rooms, 360,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space at the Coliseum, with 750,000 more planned at a new center; culture, cuisine, communications and superstores...
Atlanta, fifth biggest convention capital thanks to two-year-old Georgia World Congress Center, lured 775 gatherings, 800,000 delegates, $212 million. Attractions: 28,000 hotel rooms, more than 1 million sq. ft. exhibition space, a cordial citizenry, historic sites...
Houston, rising Sunbelt center, registered 340 conventions, 630,000 delegates, $166 million. Attractions: 30,000 hotel rooms, 1.3 million sq. ft. exhibition space, Astrodome, shopping...
...River as well as the nearby Alamo as all-purpose sewers for everything from toilets to slaughterhouses. After the New River leaves Mexico with its vile cargo, it meanders for about 55 miles through California's agriculture-rich Imperial Valley before emptying into the Salton Sea, center of a popular recreation area...
...since childhood, he developed a common complication two years ago, permanent kidney failure. Ordinarily, that would have meant drastic changes in Morgan's lifestyle. To ensure his survival, it would have been necessary for him to drive the 65 miles from his parents' farm to the medical center in Columbia several times a week. There he would be hooked up for hours at a stretch to a kidney machine that would purge his body of poisonous wastes. Yet, in spite of his life-threatening ailment, Morgan continues to lead an active life, helping his father run the farm...