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...however, as the city ricochets through its biggest boom since the Frank-and-Dino Rat Pack days of the '50s and '60s -- the tourist inflow has nearly doubled over the past decade, and the area remains among America's fastest growing -- the hypereclectic 24-hour-a-day fantasy-themed party machine no longer seems so very exotic or extreme. High-tech spectacle, convenience, classlessness, loose money, a Nikes-and-T-shirt dress code: that's why immigrants flock to the U.S.; that's why some 20 million Americans (and 2 million foreigners) went to Vegas in 1992. "Las Vegas exists...
...most controversial parts of the accord is the section covering the financial-services industry, now one of the fastest-growing parts of world trade. While banks, insurers, securities firms and lawyers in the U.S. and Europe argued for access to restricted markets in Japan and Southeast Asia, those countries fought to keep them out. Meanwhile, the debate over "intellectual property" mostly pitted the developed against the developing world. GATT's new language for patents and copyrights gives the developed countries better weapons to fight piracy and counterfeiting of Cartier watches, Madonna videos or Lotus spreadsheet software -- an epidemic problem...
Other individual achievements included Ou's second-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke and Heilman's second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle to one of the three fastest sprinters in the nation...
Detroit's sales charts are starting to look healthier. The U.S. companies are being helped by improved products, a price advantage of 16% against Japanese rivals because of currency differences, and the fact that so far both European and Asian competitors have almost entirely missed the fastest-growing market segment of all: vans, trucks and sport-utility vehicles. In the past decade, although car sales have been 30% off their 1985 peak and have suffered two of their poorest years since the 1960s, the truck and van market has exploded to 60% of car sales...
Villanova comes to the tournament with a reputation for being one of the fastest teams in the East. It finished in the top 25 at the NCAA tournament last year, and remain a speedy...