Word: gulch
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Originally, he became interested from reading The New York Times and Showdown at Gucci Gulch, which recounts Bradley's efforts in the 1986 Tax Reform Bill...
...works of Kublai Wynn, the Bellagio especially. Never was a city built and embellished in such opposition to its own environment. The Mormons tried settling this parched valley, nothing but dust, rocks and Gila monsters, in the 1850s; they failed. In 1905 it was set up as a dry-gulch railroad town handling transshipments of fruits and vegetables from California to the Midwest. Labor strikes all but destroyed the railroad, and with it Las Vegas, in the 1920s. And then, in the '30s, three things made the place possible. Nevada legalized gambling and quickie divorce, and the New Deal created...
...animals' behavior is not so much altered as stage-managed. To the visitor, that lion and lioness sunbathing on Pride Rock look close enough...well, close enough to eat you. But they are separated from the tram by an unseen gulch too wide for the beasts to straddle. The savanna where they roam was once drab cow pasture, but every weed and rut has been meticulously contoured and art-directed to resemble an African plain. Disney's Imagineers did a convincing makeover. When Franklin Sonn, the South African ambassador to the U.S., saw the place last month, he said, "This...
...Windbag Saloon, a former brothel on Last Chance Gulch in Helena, unemployed office manager Carol Muir wants a speed limit of 75 or 80, but bartender Bob Maronick says, "I don't want to have to look at my speedometer all the time." In the cause of investigative reporting, Muir leads a three-saloon tour, and this scientific survey gives a slight edge to speed limits. A Great Falls Tribune survey found 64% in favor of a speed limit but only 50% in favor of bothering with a special session of the state legislature to get it done in January...
...buying what they are selling. But in the process the press should not overblow each revelation week by week. If it does, the public will tune out, as it did in Whitewater. This is not to say that the White House doesn't smell like Gucci Gulch. Nor should it go unpunished if it takes in improper contributions (and let's hold the Republicans or Dole to the same standard). The fascination with the latest White House paper chase only gives Republicans cover for avoiding the larger issue of campaign-finance reform. Just eight Republican Senators voted for it last...