Word: tented
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...exactly, is Hollow Horn prospering from the $12.7 billion Indian gaming industry? Like most Native Americans, not at all. Last year the Oglala's Prairie Wind Casino, housed in a temporary, white, circus-tent-like structure smaller than a basketball court, turned a profit of $2.4 million on total revenue of $9.5 million. Most of the money went to fund general programs, such as services for the elderly and young people, as well as education and economic development. But even if there had been profit sharing instead, the payout would have worked out to a daily stipend of just 16?...
...Simon's Episcopal Church in Conyers, Ga., toddlers have their own altar, at which they can practice setting up for church services with small candles, prayer books and Bibles. In a Bible lesson on Creation, they played with sand to represent God's earth and crawled through a tent to touch the "heavens" painted on its ceiling. Says Nicole Botkin, the church's Christian-education supervisor: "Parents help children with development in motor skills and language during the first years, so why not teach spirituality as well...
...indoor theme park that has drawn 2.3 million visitors since opening in 1998. They may even find urgent business reasons to be in London this week when "Star Trek - The Adventure" - the largest-ever interactive exhibition of sets, props and costumes - begins its world tour in a massive tent in Hyde Park. We know these closet nerds exist, because the enterprise still thrives. Though showing its age after 664 TV shows and a 35th birthday last year, the franchise still generates perhaps $200 million a year in revenues when you add up movie grosses, TV ad sales and what...
...during the night, a storm arose, and the next day sheets of rain reduced visibility to a few feet. Some of us played cards in the main tent, but others curled up inside sleeping bags in a fetal position, trying to stay warm. The second day, we set off in a drizzle, trekking up steep ice fields encrusted with ash. Soon it poured again. We crossed paths with a group of drenched Austrians. Only upon our return to Petropavlovsk did we discover that we had hiked seven hours through a 50-m.p.h. hurricane. Nonetheless, the spectacle was worth the effort...
...fact, e-mails to a club’s group list and table tent advertisements are both free and scored higher than the most effective method that requires cash—printing fliers and putting them into students’ university mailboxes, which came in eighth...