Word: gondola
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...Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola...
...city chock full of big-time gamblers, Sheldon Adelson, 70, stands out for his bold bets. "Either I'm the stupidest guy around or the biggest crapshooter in town," he said before opening his $1.5 billion Venetian mega-resort in 1999, complete with canals, gondola rides and its own convention center next door. Five years later, the Venetian is one of Sin City's most profitable hotels, and Adelson has led Vegas' transformation into a business destination...
Known as the “ski capital of the East,” Stowe rivals the ski meccas of the Colorado Rockies. With eight chairlifts and a gondola, getting to Stowe’s 60 trails is easy, as is access to the mountain, named for the resort town in which it is located. Stowe is equally as hospitable to snowboarders with its new program “Ridestowe...
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...long can gondola making survive? Daniele Bonaldo, who has made gondolas for a half-century, has little confidence in the talk from local officials about starting a school for squerarioli. The school has been just that, talk, for about 20 years. Besides, theory is one thing, but when it comes to making boats, practical experience is everything. "If you have passion and skill, you can do it," he says. Bonaldo clearly sees those attributes in Price, and is proud of having helped the young American. "He does things well because he has a lot of patience," Bonaldo says...