Word: mecca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...With...a dozen or so college film societies...institute film festivals...Cambridge is in some sense a movie mecca, one of the biggest movie towns in the country," a 1974 Crimson article read...
...Koch and O'Hara who later urged Ashbery to move to New York City, the poet's mecca, where he currently resides...
...Koch and O'Hara who later urged Ashbery to move to New York City, the poets' mecca, where he currently resides...
...children still have a conservatively estimated $15 billion in cash, shares, corporate assets, real estate, jewelry and fine art. The treasure was accumulated over three decades from a skein of companies and monopolies dominating vast sectors of the country's economic activity--from oil exports to incoming Mecca pilgrims--and from the Suhartos' interests in some 13,900 sq. mi. of Indonesian property, an area the size of Belgium...
Welcome to Troubleland. Orlando, the mecca of mega theme parks, may have too much of a great thing. With seven large parks on the ground and more on the way, industry analysts are issuing dire warnings: "Orlando is now a zero-sum game," says Curt Alexander, an analyst with Media Group Research. "There will be bloodletting of biblical proportions." The theme-park glut promises bargains for consumers but a brutal shakeout that could pound the earnings of park owners Disney, Seagram (Universal) and Anheuser-Busch (Busch Gardens, Sea World...