Word: pearson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these tournaments is ideal for a resort town: they're here for a fairly short period, and they don't strain the infrastructure capacity to the extent that major conferences in Las Vegas do." Neither do the visitors get swallowed up. "We're just the right size," says Pearson, a 30-year veteran of the bowling business. "They go to Vegas, they get lost...
...Congress, Reno persuaded the Nevada legislature to raise the hotel-room tax by a point and dedicate the proceeds to the project. The stadium's real goal is to promote the city and draw tourist dollars to its hotels, casinos and other facilities. "It's a self-perpetuating deal," Pearson says. "The more bowlers I bring in, the more tax is paid, the faster I get the place paid off, the more I can put back into tournaments...
...gift shop alone is 11,000 sq. ft. The 80 bowling lanes can be covered over to make 38,000 sq. ft. of convention space. A 172-seat theater opened last week, with 70-mm showings of To Fly and a Reno travelog on a four-story screen. Pearson is already booking the theater for lectures and the space outside for a wide array of events, such as an auction in which 1,000 Harley-Davidsons will be displayed on the stadium's gleaming approaches. "You have to be able to attract events, and I'm going to concentrate...
...trim and permanent seating for 1,100 spectators. Scoring is fully automatic and displayed on the world's longest rigid, backlit video screen. Every aspect of the operation is overseen from a computerized command center on the fifth level. From there, high above the bowling floor, executive director Reg Pearson looks down on an ongoing tournament in full swing. The crash of bowling balls, the staccato of falling pins, the clatter of automatic pin-setting machines: the din is unimaginable. "It sounds like a cash register," Pearson says. "I love it." The sound echoes around Reno, which is being renewed...
YALE: Demmo 2-14 0-1 5; Offer 1-2 2-4 4; Kalich 5-17 5-8 15; Totte 0-5 0-2 0; Hardaker 1-2 1-2 4; Willaims 0-4 5-7 5; Pearson 0-1 2-2 2; Porber 5-11 9-14 19. TOTALS...