Word: hollowed
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...meantime, he and the other people who run Vegas believe the deck will get reshuffled and new players will sit down at the table as casino owners, but the game itself won't change. Americans, they think, will continue to get economically better off. It sounds a little hollow, especially looking at this city in the desert that creates nothing, the world's greatest ghost town in waiting. But a lot of people have gone broke betting against the people who run Las Vegas. Besides, the Las Vegas people have no choice but to bet things will go back. They...
...Philippines' footwear-loving former First Lady Imelda Marcos, who wanted to promote local shoemakers, it seemed on the brink of dereliction when its original tenants began to close down due to cheap Southeast Asian competition. Rents plummeted and, in 2004, a different type of resident moved in. Suddenly, hollow store units were populated by funky art galleries and vintage boutiques, cool cafés and quirky antique shops. This new community dubbed itself Cubao X, a moniker that reflected its eclectic, bohemian spirit...
...order to draw attention away from recent accusations that his social life resembles that of a sordid playboy’s. Since people use symbols to convey something beyond the obvious, Berlusconi’s political symbolism at the G8 summit might be cynically viewed as having a particularly hollow and manipulative motive...
...Sheehan’s protest was an attack on that avatar. And to some residents of Preston Hollow, it was also an attack on the mythology they allowed themselves to believe for so long, which held not only that Bush was a good president—despite the media’s inaccurate and disrespectful portrayal of his administration—but also that they, the residents of Preston Hollow, were, like Bush, the kind of people who deserved to occupy positions of authority...
...While one little, isolated neighborhood protest is surely not a terminal deterrent for the attitude that has characterized places like Preston Hollow and men like Bush for so long, it was at least an eye-opener. This façade, powerful as it is, will no longer deceive the rest of the nation...