Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-vagrancy laws are under way in Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, and the Miami case breaks ground. Miami officials say they'll appeal the decision, and Vice Mayor Miriam Alonso says the judgment is bad for the city: "Homelessness is not the best image for tourism or business or the community at large." Miami also faces a shot in the pocketbook: the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking damages for the homeless of as much as $50 million...
...HURRICANE ANDREW WASN'T BAD ENOUGH FOR Florida's tourism industry, now the state is facing a man-made disaster: snipers taking potshots at cars along Interstate 295, conduit for some 80,000 vehicles a day around downtown Jacksonville and the primary route for East Coast snowbirds headed south for Florida's beaches...
...Iceman, a Stone Age wanderer found one year ago remarkably preserved in the melting Similaun glacier high in the Alps. His discovery has already upset some long-held notions about the late Stone Age, chilled relations between Austria and Italy -- near whose border he was found -- and stimulated tourism and commerce. His age, established by radiocarbon dating as approximately 5,300 years, makes him by far the most ancient human being ever found virtually intact. (Some Egyptian mummies are older, but had their brain and vital organs removed before interment...
Proponents are banking on the fact that more tourism will bring new jobs and more money into Cambridge...
...want people to start thinking of both the left and right banks of the Charles," he said. "There is more to Cambridge than just Harvard Square. There are a lot of people [in Cambridge] working for tourism. We want to join in that effort, draw as many people as possible to the city...