Word: circus
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...Vegas hoteliers to add 10,000 new rooms in the past year alone, a 16% increase. Last week more than 50,000 gamblers and gawkers flocked to the opening of the world's largest hostelry: the 4,000-room Excalibur, a $290 million medieval-flavored extravaganza concocted by Circus Circus Enterprises...
...south of metropolitan Las Vegas (pop. 650,000). Founded by Don Laughlin, an enterprising developer who arrived in 1966, the hamlet has used its riverfront location to attract nine casinos since 1986. The town boasts more than 4,000 rooms in such hotels as Harrah's Del Rio and Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers from shortages of housing, labor and water and must send high school students across the river to Bullhead City, Ariz., until...
...controversial," but by leading off newscasts with the story and cutting to the hospital for frequent live reports, the network was in effect trumpeting the blood-heating procedure as a major development. That outraged many medical experts. "This is turning a life-and-death issue into a media circus. Frankly, it makes me sick to my stomach," said Dr. Bernard Bihari, a New York City physician who has conducted trials of experimental AIDS drugs...
...defenders. The rabble rousing on the celebrity cocktail circuit has brought thousands of protest letters from around the world pouring into the B.I.E.'s Paris office. In Venice the city council remains categorically opposed, as do 63 organizations ranging from police to town planners. "Mounting a spectacular Barnum & Bailey circus is no way to solve real problems of sanitation, transport and tourism," says Alvise Zorzi, author of seven books on Venice and leader of the "No Expo" groups...
...Republican party was the real winner of this weekend's convention, showing Massachusetts that although it has been excluded from the center ring of Beacon Hill for two decades, it can still put on quite a circus show--elephants...